{"id":4276,"date":"2026-02-16T14:17:52","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T14:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.polandjapanfoundation.com\/japan-between-fiscal-pressure-and-security\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T12:40:53","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T12:40:53","slug":"japan-between-fiscal-pressure-and-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.polandjapanfoundation.com\/en\/japan-between-fiscal-pressure-and-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan: Between Fiscal Pressure and Security"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nIt is with great pleasure that I present a new publication issued by Poland Japan Foundation: Guns, Debt and Aging: Japan&#8217;s Security Strategy under Fiscal Constraint by Prof. Bo\u0161tjan Bertalani\u010d. This study, published shortly after the LDP&#8217;s major victory in the recent elections in Japan, analyzes the historic expansion of Japan&#8217;s defense capabilities under Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi at a time when the country is grappling with record public debt, rapid demographic decline, labor shortages, and a weak yen. The publication makes a significant contribution to ongoing discussions on security, political economy, and demographic transformations.\n<\/p>\n\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file w-full\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/new.polandjapanfoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/12.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of 12.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-bd9bdf17-8977-4e24-88be-ce377c418057\" href=\"https:\/\/new.polandjapanfoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/12.pdf\">12<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/new.polandjapanfoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/12.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download=\"\" aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-bd9bdf17-8977-4e24-88be-ce377c418057\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is with great pleasure that I present a new publication issued by Poland Japan Foundation: Guns, Debt and Aging: Japan&#8217;s Security Strategy under Fiscal Constraint by Prof. Bo\u0161tjan Bertalani\u010d. This study, published shortly after the LDP&#8217;s major victory in the recent elections in Japan, analyzes the historic expansion of Japan&#8217;s defense capabilities under Prime [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4277,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bez-kategorii","category-publication"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.polandjapanfoundation.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.polandjapanfoundation.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.polandjapanfoundation.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.polandjapanfoundation.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.polandjapanfoundation.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4276"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/new.polandjapanfoundation.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4279,"href":"https:\/\/new.polandjapanfoundation.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4276\/revisions\/4279"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.polandjapanfoundation.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.polandjapanfoundation.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.polandjapanfoundation.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.polandjapanfoundation.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}