{"id":459,"date":"2007-05-29T09:00:08","date_gmt":"2007-05-29T08:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.branedy.net\/?p=459"},"modified":"2007-05-29T09:00:08","modified_gmt":"2007-05-29T08:00:08","slug":"the-japanese-are-on-to-something","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/?p=459","title":{"rendered":"The Japanese are on to something"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Japan the politicians do remember their culture when a <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/asia-pacific\/6697329.stm\">Japanese minister kills himself<\/a>. The issues is over honor, from the cultural perspective of Japan, when someone fails to uphold the standard of honor, they are committing <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Seppuku\">Seppuku<\/a> as a part of their bushido code of honor.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a shame more western politicians don&#8217;t abide by the code of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bushido\">bushido<\/a>.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Japan the politicians do remember their culture when a Japanese minister kills himself. The issues is over honor, from the cultural perspective of Japan, when someone fails to uphold the standard of honor, they are committing Seppuku as a<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/?p=459\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Japanese are on to something<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\"> &#8250;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,38,60,13,57,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-democracy","category-honor","category-ireland","category-irishelection","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}