{"id":14274,"date":"2016-10-30T11:49:44","date_gmt":"2016-10-30T21:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=14274"},"modified":"2017-10-23T16:23:06","modified_gmt":"2017-10-24T02:23:06","slug":"my-japan-times-jbc-column-102-oct-31-2016-u-s-and-japan-elections-scary-in-their-own-ways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=14274","title":{"rendered":"My Japan Times JBC column 102, Oct 31, 2016: “U.S. and Japan elections: Scary in their own ways”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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U.S. and Japan elections: scary in their own ways<\/strong>
\nSubtitle: \u00a0American political campaigns can be frighteningly tribal while fear of the foreign permeates polls here
\nBy Dr. ARUDOU, Debito, October 31, 2016
\nColumn 102 for the Japan Times Community Page<\/p>\n

Happy Halloween. Let\u2019s talk about something really scary: elections in the United States and Japan.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

I say scary because these countries are the No. 1 and No. 3 largest economies in the world, not to mention representative democracies considered too big to fail. Yet the way things are going is truly frightening.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Let start with election campaigns in the U.S., since they are probably very familiar and fresh to readers:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The U.S.: two tribes go to war […]<\/strong><\/p>\n

Read the rest in The Japan Times at\u00a0http:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/community\/2016\/10\/30\/issues\/u-s-japan-elections-scary-ways\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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U.S. and Japan elections: scary in their own ways
\nSubtitle: American political campaigns can be frighteningly tribal while fear of the foreign permeates polls here
\nBy Dr. ARUDOU, Debito, October 31, 2016
\nColumn 102 for the Japan Times Community Page<\/p>\n

Happy Halloween. Let\u2019s talk about something really scary: elections in the United States and Japan. I say scary because these countries are the No. 1 and No. 3 largest economies in the world, not to mention representative democracies considered too big to fail. Yet the way things are going is truly frightening.<\/p>\n

Let start with election campaigns in the U.S., since they are probably very familiar and fresh to readers:<\/p>\n

The U.S.: two tribes go to war […]
\nRead the rest in The Japan Times at http:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/community\/2016\/10\/30\/issues\/u-s-japan-elections-scary-ways\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,22,34,52,20,5,12,4,10,14,16,13,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-cultural-issue","category-exclusionism","category-hate-speech","category-history","category-human-rights","category-immigration-assimilation","category-japanese-government","category-japanese-policeforeign-crime","category-japanese-politics","category-labor-issues","category-media","category-unsustainable-japanese-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14274"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14786,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14274\/revisions\/14786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}