{"id":1561,"date":"2025-07-17T06:45:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T06:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mhtechin.com\/news\/has-japans-rice-minister-brought-down-prices-enough-to-save-his-party\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T06:45:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T06:45:10","slug":"has-japans-rice-minister-brought-down-prices-enough-to-save-his-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mhtechin.com\/news\/has-japans-rice-minister-brought-down-prices-enough-to-save-his-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Has Japan\u2019s \u2018Rice Minister\u2019 Brought Down Prices Enough to Save His Party?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shinjiro Koizumi has scrambled to cut soaring rice prices ahead of a high-stakes election this weekend. Will it be enough to buoy support for the Liberal Democratic Party?<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shinjiro Koizumi has scrambled to cut soaring rice prices ahead of a high-stakes election this weekend. Will it be enough&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1562,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mhtechin.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mhtechin.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mhtechin.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mhtechin.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mhtechin.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mhtechin.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mhtechin.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mhtechin.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mhtechin.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mhtechin.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}