{"id":11322,"date":"2019-11-20T13:29:08","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T04:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/20\/shinzo-abe-weathers-scandals-to-become-japans-longest-serving-prime-minister"},"modified":"2019-11-20T13:29:08","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T04:29:08","slug":"shinzo-abe-weathers-scandals-to-become-japans-longest-serving-prime-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=11322","title":{"rendered":"Shinzo Abe weathers scandals to become Japan&#8217;s longest-serving prime minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Analysts say Abe has benefited from a weak opposition and a desire for stability among voters<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2013\/dec\/16\/shinzo-abe-japan-pm\">Shinzo Abe<\/a> has become Japan\u2019s longest-serving prime minister, but the milestone came amid a political scandal and doubts over his ability to realise his dream of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2016\/jul\/11\/japan-could-change-pacifist-constitution-after-shinzo-abe-victory\">revising the country\u2019s postwar \u201cpacifist\u201d constitution<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Abe has spent a total of 2,887 days as leader during two periods in office, beating the previous record set by Taro Katsura more than a century ago.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/20\/shinzo-abe-weathers-scandals-to-become-japans-longest-serving-prime-minister\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Analysts say Abe has benefited from a weak opposition and a desire for stability among votersShinzo Abe has become Japan\u2019s longest-serving prime minister, but the milestone came amid a political scandal and doubts over his ability to realise his dream &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,88,638,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan","category-shinzo-abe","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11322"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11323,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11322\/revisions\/11323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}