{"id":30494,"date":"2019-01-25T05:22:20","date_gmt":"2019-01-25T05:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=30494"},"modified":"2019-01-25T05:22:20","modified_gmt":"2019-01-25T05:22:20","slug":"the-women-on-the-front-lines-of-japans-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=30494","title":{"rendered":"The women on the front lines of Japan&#8217;s defense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">Yokosuka, Japan (CNN)<\/cite>The first time 22-year-old Akiko Hirayama stepped on board a navy ship, she was transfixed by the hardware.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">&#8220;I was so amazed by all the torpedoes and missiles on the ship and its labyrinthine layout,&#8221; said Hirayama. &#8220;I&#8217;d never seen anything like that before.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Hirayama, a former airport security guard now aged 23, had swung by the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force&#8217;s (JMSDF) public festival out of curiosity. Six months later, devastating floods submerged her hometown in Okayama prefecture in western Japan. Moved by how Japan&#8217;s Self-Defense Forces<strong> <\/strong>(JSDF)<strong> <\/strong>helped her family and friends during the relief operations, Hirayama decided to join up.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yokosuka, Japan (CNN)The first time 22-year-old Akiko Hirayama stepped on board a navy ship, she was transfixed by the hardware.&#8221;I was so amazed by all the torpedoes and missiles on the ship and its labyrinthine layout,&#8221; said Hirayama. &#8220;I&#8217;d never seen anything like that before.&#8221;Hirayama, a former airport security guard now aged 23, had swung&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":30495,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}