{"id":5244,"date":"2005-06-16T08:01:39","date_gmt":"2005-06-16T13:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.froginawell.net\/japan\/?p=85"},"modified":"2014-08-30T14:06:49","modified_gmt":"2014-08-30T14:06:49","slug":"information-v-imperium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/2005\/06\/information-v-imperium\/","title":{"rendered":"Information v. Imperium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s Japan Focus brings discussion of the <a href=\"http:\/\/japanfocus.org\/article.asp?id=311\">past<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/japanfocus.org\/article.asp?id=308\">present<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/japanfocus.org\/article.asp?id=309\">future<\/a> of the Japanese imperial institution. I&#8217;m particularly intrigued by the story of the researcher who <a href=\"http:\/\/japanfocus.org\/article.asp?id=311\">used Japan&#8217;s Freedom of Information laws<\/a> to pry documents out of the Imperial Household Agency, and how those documents may shed enough light on the arbitrary nature of &#8220;Imperial&#8221; tomb designations to jump-start the stalled process of studying the mounded tombs great and small.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s Japan Focus brings discussion of the past, present and future of the Japanese imperial institution. I&#8217;m particularly intrigued by the story of the researcher who used Japan&#8217;s Freedom of Information laws to pry documents out of the Imperial Household Agency, and how those documents may shed enough light on the arbitrary nature of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[94,119,126,63,187,61,193],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archaeology","category-english","category-general","category-japan","category-memory","category-nationalism","category-political"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9yoH3-1mA","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5244"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5667,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5244\/revisions\/5667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}