{"id":152704,"date":"2026-06-09T21:30:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T21:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=152704"},"modified":"2026-06-09T21:30:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T21:30:07","slug":"forget-weimar-its-japans-taisho-period-we-need-to-talk-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=152704","title":{"rendered":"Forget Weimar, it\u2019s Japan\u2019s Taisho period we need to talk about"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostPeople always talk knowingly about Weimar, a period of extremes: artistic and social-sexual decadence, democratic liberalism and the radicalisation of the left and the right, before Germany\u2019s descent into Hitlerian hell. The city as a symbol, close to the site of the former Buchenwald concentration camp, is back in the news, well, at least the op-ed pages of the Western press.<br \/>\nThat\u2019s rarely a good sign. \u201cThe new crisis [in Germany] seems uncomfortably familiar because, in some respects, it&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/opinion\/china-opinion\/article\/3356304\/forget-weimar-its-japans-taisho-period-we-need-talk-about?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostPeople always talk knowingly about Weimar, a period of extremes: artistic and social-sexual decadence, democratic liberalism and the radicalisation of the left and the&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152704"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=152704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=152704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=152704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=152704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}