{"id":83639,"date":"2026-06-14T08:02:40","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T12:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=83639"},"modified":"2026-06-14T08:02:40","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T12:02:40","slug":"japan-also","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/japan-also\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan Also"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From The New York Times:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2026\/06\/13\/multimedia\/13int-germany-japan-01-hqmv\/13int-germany-japan-01-hqmv-articleLarge.jpg?quality=75&amp;auto=webp&amp;disable=upscale\" alt=\"Shinjiro Koizumi and Boris Pistorius, the defense ministers of Japan and Germany, walk by two large flags of their countries. People in formal naval dress stand behind them.\" width=\"242\" height=\"364\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"css-s99gbd StoryBodyCompanionColumn\" data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-140ip4z e1me5xab0\">It is hardly an Axis redux. This time, Japan and Germany are banding together from a defensive posture, with Berlin supporting Ukraine\u2019s defense against Russia, and Tokyo wary of threats posed by China and North Korea. They are joining other like-minded \u201cmiddle powers,\u201d like fellow Group of 7 members Britain, Canada and France \u2014 their enemies in World War II. And they are casting themselves as champions of international law and institutions that serve as bulwarks against the bullying behaviors of the world\u2019s most powerful countries.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-s99gbd StoryBodyCompanionColumn\" data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-140ip4z e1me5xab0\">As Boris Pistorius, the German defense minister, said in March at a Japanese naval base, nations like Germany and Japan, \u201cwho still stand by the rules-based international order, must move even closer together and make clear what we stand for.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The New York Times: It is hardly an Axis redux. This time, Japan and Germany are banding together from.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-83639","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83639"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83640,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83639\/revisions\/83640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}