{"id":350904,"date":"2026-03-21T14:05:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T14:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/350904\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T14:05:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T14:05:10","slug":"surprise-embarrassment-unease-in-japan-after-trump-uses-pearl-harbor-to-defend-iran-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/350904\/","title":{"rendered":"Surprise, embarrassment, unease in Japan after Trump uses Pearl Harbor to defend Iran war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"CAB2Y4BT2JBY7ILSRXS5V5GIXY\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">TOKYO \u2014 Senior U.S. and Japanese officials tend to shy away from anything but very careful public comments about Japan\u2019s 1941 sneak attack on U.S. forces at Pearl Harbor. So there was embarrassment, confusion and unease on Saturday in Japan after <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/video\/trump-cites-pearl-harbor-to-defend-iran-war-decision-who-knows-surprise-better-than-japan-fcac7d56714e465eb9841fd57ffd57ea\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">President Donald Trump casually used the World War II attack<\/a> to justify his secrecy before launching the war against Iran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TOKYO \u2014 Senior U.S. and Japanese officials tend to shy away from anything but very careful public comments&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":350905,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[159991,170739,122,42,117780,43,238,40,38,41,39,12526,126],"class_list":["post-350904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-2024-2026-mideast-wars","tag-as-japan-us-trump-pearl-harbor","tag-general-news","tag-headlines","tag-iran-war","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-washington-news","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}