{"id":105278,"date":"2014-01-12T14:03:17","date_gmt":"2014-01-12T14:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/report-us-army-tested-biological-weapons-in-japan-during-the-sixties\/"},"modified":"2014-01-12T14:03:17","modified_gmt":"2014-01-12T14:03:17","slug":"report-us-army-tested-biological-weapons-in-japan-during-the-sixties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/report-us-army-tested-biological-weapons-in-japan-during-the-sixties\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: US Army Tested Biological Weapons In Japan During The Sixties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/biological-weapons-japan-2014-1\"><b>AFP<\/b><\/a><br \/>January 12, 2014<\/p>\n<p>The US army conducted field experiments of biological weapons, which could harm rice cropping, in the Japanese island of Okinawa in the early 1960s, a press report said Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The same experiments were also conducted on the US mainland and in Taiwan, Kyodo news agency reported, citing US military documents it said it had obtained.<\/p>\n<p>The US is \u201cbelieved to have had China and Southeast Asia in mind in developing such crop-harming agents\u201d, the report stated.<\/p>\n<p>In the tests conducted at least a dozen times between 1961 and 1962, rice blast fungus was released over rice fields and data was collected on how it affected rice production, Kyodo said, citing the documents.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/biological-weapons-japan-2014-1\"><strong>Full article here<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This article was posted: Sunday, January 12, 2014  at  7:44 am<\/p>\n<hr>\n<hr>\n<p><!-- share and follow --><!-- end of share and follow --><\/p>\n<hr>\n<hr>\n<p>&lt;!&#8211; this is where we need to show the related articles  <\/p>\n<div class=\"related_articles_container\">\n<h3 class=\"sub_titles\">Related Articles<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8211;&gt; <\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infowars.com\/report-us-army-tested-biological-weapons-in-japan-during-the-sixties\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Report: US Army Tested Biological Weapons In Japan During The Sixties\">Infowars<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFPJanuary 12, 2014 The US army conducted field experiments of biological weapons, which could harm rice cropping, in the Japanese island of Okinawa in the early 1960s, a press report said Sunday. The same experiments were also conducted on the US mainland and in Taiwan, Kyodo news agency reported, citing US military documents it said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-105278","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}