{"id":15807,"date":"2009-05-11T13:58:32","date_gmt":"2009-05-11T17:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/?p=15807"},"modified":"2009-05-11T13:58:32","modified_gmt":"2009-05-11T17:58:32","slug":"japanese-government-debates-construction-of-national-manga-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/japanese-government-debates-construction-of-national-manga-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese Government Debates Construction of National Manga Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Japanese parliament is currently debating the expenditure of 11.7 billion yen (US $118 million) on the construction of a national manga &amp; anime museum to be located in Tokyo&#8217;s Odaiba district. The museum is expected to attract 600,000 annual visitors and contribute to prime minister Taro Aso&#8217;s plan to leverage Japan&#8217;s creative &#8220;soft power&#8221; to stimulate economic growth.<\/p>\n<p>Democratic Party of Japan politician Yukio Hatoyama, who opposes Aso&#8217;s Liberal Democratic Party, has publicly criticized the museum development, calling it &#8220;a national manga caf&eacute;,&#8221; and arguing that, &#8220;Such an enormous waste is very foolish.&#8221; Hatoyama has publicly implied that the project a personal pet project for Aso, who is an acknowledged manga fan.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/news\/2009-05-10\/planned-anime-museum-panned-as-national-manga-cafe\" target=\"_blank\">Anime News Network<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Japanese parliament is currently debating the expenditure of 11.7 billion yen (US $118 million) on the construction of a national manga &amp; anime museum to be located in Tokyo&#8217;s Odaiba district. The museum is expected to attract 600,000 annual visitors and contribute to prime minister Taro Aso&#8217;s plan to leverage Japan&#8217;s creative &#8220;soft power&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15807"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15808,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15807\/revisions\/15808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}