{"id":622136,"date":"2010-01-06T05:29:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-06T10:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/japan-finally-lets-its-ill-finance-minister-resign-2010-1"},"modified":"2010-01-06T05:29:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-06T10:29:00","slug":"japan-finally-lets-its-sick-finance-minister-resign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/622136","title":{"rendered":"Japan Finally Lets Its Sick Finance Minister Resign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"float_right\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/~~\/f?id=4b3a6b770000000000bcfbdc&amp;maxX=319&amp;maxY=239\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Hirohisa Fujii Japan\" width=\"319\" height=\"239\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how not to signal strength and confidence to the rest of the world: Let your 77-year old finance minister fall ill, go to the hospital, ask to resign, and then reject his request, presumably because there&#8217;s nobody who can step into fill his shoes.<\/p>\n<p>Up until late last night, that was the situation with Hirohisa Fujii.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/home.kyodo.co.jp\/modules\/fstStory\/index.php?storyid=479109\">Well, finally prime Minister Hatoyamai is letting him off the hook<\/a>. According to Kyodo newswire, he will be replaced by his deputy Naoto Kan.<\/p>\n<p>What a fiasco.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/japan-finally-lets-its-ill-finance-minister-resign-2010-1#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>See Also:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/hirohisa-fujii-offers-to-quit-2010-1\">Japan Is About Lose Another Finance Minister, As Exhausted Hirohisa Fujii Offers To Quit<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/is-global-economic-stress-taking-its-toll-on-the-worlds-finance-ministers-2009-12\">Finance Ministers Of Japan And Ireland Reveal Health Problems In The Same Week<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~4\/DLQhdSSricE\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s how not to signal strength and confidence to the rest of the world: Let your 77-year old finance minister fall ill, go to the hospital, ask to resign, and then reject his request, presumably because there&#8217;s nobody who can step into fill his shoes. Up until late last night, that was the situation with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-622136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2BQs","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=622136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}