{"id":159215,"date":"2026-10-23T09:31:50","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T09:31:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=159215"},"modified":"2026-10-23T09:31:50","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T09:31:50","slug":"japans-university-defence-bids-surge-as-post-war-taboo-fades-amid-china-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=159215","title":{"rendered":"Japan\u2019s university defence bids surge as post-war taboo fades amid China concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostJapanese universities and other educational institutions more than doubled their applications for defence ministry research funding this year to a record 291, up from 123 last year, as Tokyo moves to strengthen its defence capabilities.<br \/>\nThe increase is the clearest sign yet that academia\u2019s decades-long resistance to military-linked work is diminishing.<br \/>\nThe bids accounted for more than half the record 560 applications received by the ministry this year, up from 340 last year, with the rest coming&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/military\/article\/3371931\/japans-university-defence-bids-surge-post-war-taboo-fades-amid-china-concerns\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostJapanese universities and other educational institutions more than doubled their applications for defence ministry research funding this year to a record 291, up from&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\/159215"}],"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=159215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=159215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=159215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=159215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}