{"id":21418,"date":"2020-08-06T18:49:55","date_gmt":"2020-08-06T09:49:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/06\/shinzo-abe-accused-of-going-awol-as-japan-tackles-covid-surge"},"modified":"2020-08-06T18:49:55","modified_gmt":"2020-08-06T09:49:55","slug":"shinzo-abe-accused-of-going-awol-as-japan-tackles-covid-surge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=21418","title":{"rendered":"Shinzo Abe accused of going awol as Japan tackles Covid surge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PM acclaimed Japan\u2019s response as a model for the world, but has been largely silent amid record case rises<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>After <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/japan\">Japan<\/a> appeared to have brought the coronavirus outbreak under control in late May, the prime minister, Shinzo Abe, acclaimed his country\u2019s response as a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/22\/from-near-disaster-to-success-story-how-japan-has-tackled-coronavirus\">model<\/a>\u201d for the rest of the world. It had avoided an explosion in cases, he said, and without the compulsory lockdowns imposed in Europe and the US.<\/p>\n<p>Abe lifted the seven-week <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/07\/japan-shinzo-abe-declares-state-of-emergency-over-coronavirus\">state of emergency<\/a>, enabling bars and restaurants that had voluntarily closed to reopen for business. Plans were made to allow indoor events with up to 5,000 attendees, and the media trailed the launch of an economy-boosting nationwide tourism campaign.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/06\/shinzo-abe-accused-of-going-awol-as-japan-tackles-covid-surge\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PM acclaimed Japan\u2019s response as a model for the world, but has been largely silent amid record case risesCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageAfter Japan appeared to have brought the coronavirus outbreak under control in late Ma&#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":[41,1069,914,88,638,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-infectious-diseases","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\/21418","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=21418"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21419,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21418\/revisions\/21419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}