{"id":721,"date":"2026-03-19T20:23:46","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T03:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/28d7a7981d522665db50bd97e45ef25c"},"modified":"2026-05-22T17:00:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T17:00:41","slug":"japans-heavy-metal-rock-star-pm-could-wreck-labors-china-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/?p=721","title":{"rendered":"Japan\u2019s heavy metal rock star PM could wreck Labor\u2019s China strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div><img src=\"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/japans-heavy-metal-rock-star-pm-could-wreck-labors-china-strategy.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>Five months ago, both Defence Minister Richard Marles and Foreign Minister Penny Wong were emphatic: Australia shared no greater strategic alignment with any country than Japan.<\/p>\n<p>Yet Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi\u2019s thumping victory at Sunday\u2019s general election means her brand of unapologetic China hawkishness is likely to collide with Labor\u2019s delicate project to stabilise relations with our largest trading partner.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<figure><\/figure><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five months ago, both Defence Minister Richard Marles and Foreign Minister Penny Wong were emphatic: Australia shared no greater strategic alignment with any country than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":722,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=721"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":751,"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721\/revisions\/751"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}