{"id":31861,"date":"2019-02-05T05:22:43","date_gmt":"2019-02-05T05:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=31861"},"modified":"2019-02-05T05:22:43","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T05:22:43","slug":"japans-deputy-prime-minister-blames-women-not-giving-birth-for-declining-population","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=31861","title":{"rendered":"Japan&#8217;s deputy prime minister blames women &#8216;not giving birth&#8217; for declining population"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">  (CNN)<\/cite>Japan&#8217;s deputy prime minister has come under fire after apparently blaming childless women for Japan&#8217;s demographic woes.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Taro Aso, 78, denied that the elderly were the cause of the country&#8217;s declining population and increasing social security costs during a speech in Fukuoka prefecture in southern Japan on Sunday.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">&#8220;There are lots of strange people who say the elderly are to blame, but that is wrong,&#8221; said Aso, who also holds the role of finance minister. &#8220;The problem is with those who didn&#8217;t give birth.&#8221;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)Japan&#8217;s deputy prime minister has come under fire after apparently blaming childless women for Japan&#8217;s demographic woes.Taro Aso, 78, denied that the elderly were the cause of the country&#8217;s declining population and increasing social security costs during a speech in Fukuoka prefecture in southern Japan on Sunday.&#8221;There are lots of strange people who say the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":31862,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31861","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\/31861","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=31861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}