{"id":1116,"date":"2004-07-24T06:09:27","date_gmt":"2004-07-24T11:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2004\/07\/japan-begins-the-clone-wars\/"},"modified":"2004-07-24T06:09:27","modified_gmt":"2004-07-24T11:09:27","slug":"japan-begins-the-clone-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2004\/07\/japan-begins-the-clone-wars\/","title":{"rendered":"japan begins the clone wars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>there&#8217;s hot news for all the cloners out there&#8230; move to japan.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"sourcequote\"><a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/wire\/US\/ap20040724_161.html\" class=\"broken_link\">Japan Science Council OKs Human Cloning<\/a> [ap via abc news,  july 24,  2004]<\/div>\n<p>Japan&#8217;s top science council voted Friday to adopt policy recommendations that would permit the limited cloning of human embryos for scientific research, an official said.<\/p>\n<p>The recommendations would let researchers use and produce cloned human embryos but only for basic research, said Tomohiko Arai, an official at the Cabinet&#8217;s Council for Science and Technology Policy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>this is big news for anyone who thought they had a career working on human problems that might be solved by cloning, but somewhere in the back of my head, i had a vague recollection of another story&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>ah!  yep.  there it is.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"sourcequote\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/world\/2004-06-02-japan-women-usat_x.htm\" class=\"broken_link\">No sex please \u2014 we&#8217;re Japanese<\/a> [usa today, june 2, 2004]<\/div>\n<p>Nothing is happening with depressing regularity between Japanese men and women these days. Marriages, births and hanky-panky are all spiraling downward with troubling implications for the nation&#8217;s future: A sagging birthrate means that fewer working-age people will be around to support a growing population of elderly; a social crisis looms.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>no worries.  we&#8217;ll clone our way out of this problem.<\/p>\n<p>and really, who better to tackle this problem than the japanese?  they have a great track record on efficiency and mass production (and a lot fewer bibles-per-capita).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>there&#8217;s hot news for all the cloners out there&#8230; move to japan. Japan Science Council OKs Human Cloning [ap via abc news, july 24, 2004] Japan&#8217;s top science council voted Friday to adopt policy recommendations that would permit the limited cloning of human embryos for scientific research, an official said. The recommendations would let researchers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}