{"id":783824,"date":"2026-07-25T14:18:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T14:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/783824\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T14:18:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T14:18:18","slug":"japan-approves-plan-to-create-second-capital-outside-tokyo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/783824\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan approves plan to create second capital outside Tokyo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/politics\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Politics<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Osaka emerges as front-runner despite decades of corporate outflow<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/0\/7.jpeg\" alt=\"20260716 Osaka\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Tourists crowd around Ebisubashi bridge in Osaka\u00a0as they pose for photos on June\u00a01. (Photo by Toshiki Sasazu)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">TOKYO &#8212; Japan&#8217;s parliament on Friday approved a plan to create a &#8220;second capital&#8221; capable of keeping the country running if disaster strikes Tokyo, launching an ambitious attempt to loosen the political and economic grip of the nation&#8217;s dominant metropolis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Politics Osaka emerges as front-runner despite decades of corporate outflow Tourists crowd around Ebisubashi bridge in Osaka\u00a0as they&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":783825,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[234585,28,46584,84754,101,3471,15652,7075,17205],"class_list":["post-783824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-approves","tag-business","tag-capital","tag-create","tag-economy","tag-japan","tag-plan","tag-second","tag-tokyo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=783824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/783825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=783824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=783824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=783824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}