{"id":25883,"date":"2011-04-27T16:00:44","date_gmt":"2011-04-27T16:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/in_japan_jail_disgrace_and_the_end_of_a_brave_new_business_world\/"},"modified":"2011-04-27T16:00:44","modified_gmt":"2011-04-27T16:00:44","slug":"in_japan_jail_disgrace_and_the_end_of_a_brave_new_business_world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=25883","title":{"rendered":"In Japan, Jail, Disgrace, and the end of a brave new business World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An intensely toxic court case which shattered Japanese society, ended today with a 30-month prison sentence for a man who was once the country\u2019s most prominent entrepreneur&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Mr [Takafumi] Horie\u2019s eradication as a political and corporate trailblazer also marked the beginning of the end of prime minister Junichiro Koizumi\u2019s supposedly reformist era.<\/p>\n<p>It was a five-and-a-half year stint in which the charismatic politician persuaded both Japan and the outside world that he had placed the country on a new tack. Retrospective analysis of his period in power suggest his practical impact had been almost entirely undone by about 2009.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/tto\/business\/industries\/technology\/article2998861.ece\">Read it all (requires subscription)<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An intensely toxic court case which shattered Japanese society, ended today with a 30-month prison sentence for a man who was once the country\u2019s most prominent entrepreneur&#8230;. Mr [Takafumi] Horie\u2019s eradication as a political and corporate trailblazer also marked the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=25883\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,201,94,589,149,168,337,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-asia","category-blogging-the-internet","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-economy","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-japan","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}