{"id":157467,"date":"2026-09-15T14:00:20","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T14:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=157467"},"modified":"2026-09-15T14:00:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T14:00:20","slug":"how-okinawas-political-shift-could-make-japan-more-prepared-for-a-taiwan-contingency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=157467","title":{"rendered":"How Okinawa\u2019s political shift could make Japan more prepared for a Taiwan contingency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostOkinawa\u2019s election on Sunday of a governor backed by Japan\u2019s ruling party ended 12 years of local leadership opposed to the relocation of a US airbase and elements of Tokyo\u2019s defence build-up plans.<br \/>\nWhile experts say that Genta Koja\u2019s victory will not give Tokyo any new military authority in the region, it could lead to closer integration of civilian infrastructure into Japan\u2019s defence network in case of a conflict \u2013 including one over Taiwan.<br \/>\nKoja\u2019s election would give Tokyo \u201croom to expand its&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/military\/article\/3367624\/how-okinawas-political-shift-could-make-japan-more-prepared-taiwan-contingency?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 PostOkinawa\u2019s election on Sunday of a governor backed by Japan\u2019s ruling party ended 12 years of local leadership opposed to the relocation of a&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\/157467"}],"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=157467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=157467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=157467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=157467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}