{"id":33650,"date":"2019-03-01T03:22:30","date_gmt":"2019-03-01T03:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=33650"},"modified":"2019-03-01T03:22:30","modified_gmt":"2019-03-01T03:22:30","slug":"the-27-year-old-who-instigated-a-referendum-in-famously-apolitical-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=33650","title":{"rendered":"The 27-year-old who instigated a referendum in famously apolitical Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">  (CNN)<\/cite>Jinshiro Motoyama is not your average political activist. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">In a country where politics is dominated by established middle-aged politicians, the 27-year-old Okinawa native is a university student with no party affiliations.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">But Motoyama has disrupted the norm. He masterminded this month&#8217;s Okinawa referendum on the national government&#8217;s plan to relocate a longstanding but controversial United States air base within Japan&#8217;s southernmost prefecture.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)Jinshiro Motoyama is not your average political activist. In a country where politics is dominated by established middle-aged politicians, the 27-year-old Okinawa native is a university student with no party affiliations.But Motoyama has disrupted the norm. He masterminded this month&#8217;s Okinawa referendum on the national government&#8217;s plan to relocate a longstanding but controversial United States&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":33651,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33650","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\/33650","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=33650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}