{"id":3691,"date":"2013-08-01T13:31:51","date_gmt":"2013-08-01T13:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jlgc.wordpress.com\/?p=3691"},"modified":"2018-10-11T15:52:15","modified_gmt":"2018-10-11T14:52:15","slug":"japanese-citys-financial-collapse-offers-a-number-of-interesting-lessons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/about-jlgc\/japanese-citys-financial-collapse-offers-a-number-of-interesting-lessons\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese city&#8217;s financial collapse offers a number of interesting lessons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week the <em>Guardian<\/em> Local Leaders Network features commentary by JLGC&#8217;s Andrew Stevens on the case of Yubari&#8217;s financial collapse and efforts to save it, following recent debate around the impact of Detroit and its epic bankruptcy, among others:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/local-government-network\/2013\/jul\/31\/japanese-citys-financial-collapse-lessons\">&#8216;Japanese city&#8217;s financial collapse offers a number of interesting lessons&#8217; <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Andrew&#8217;s past articles on Japan for the Guardian networks can also be viewed here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/public-leaders-network\/2011\/may\/23\/international-localism-models\">&#8216;Local leaders: mayors vs chief executives&#8217;<\/a> (May 2011), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/local-government-network\/2011\/oct\/12\/toyota-lessons-on-local-economies-japan\">&#8216;The city in front is a Toyota: lessons on local economies&#8217;<\/a> (October 2011), and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/local-government-network\/2012\/jan\/18\/council-twinning-japanese-cities\">&#8216;Twin towns: should councils partner with foreign friends?&#8217;<\/a> (January 2012).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week the Guardian Local Leaders Network features commentary by JLGC&#8217;s Andrew Stevens on the case of Yubari&#8217;s financial collapse and efforts to save it, following recent debate around the impact of Detroit and its epic bankruptcy, among others: &#8216;Japanese city&#8217;s financial collapse offers a number of interesting lessons&#8217; Andrew&#8217;s past articles on Japan for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[29,25,28,26],"class_list":["post-3691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-jlgc","tag-city-branding","tag-city-diplomacy","tag-decentralisation","tag-local-growth"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3691"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7714,"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3691\/revisions\/7714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}