{"id":21672,"date":"2020-08-14T14:41:36","date_gmt":"2020-08-14T05:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/14\/second-time-unlucky-covid-restrictions-derail-japan-pms-holiday-again"},"modified":"2020-08-14T14:41:36","modified_gmt":"2020-08-14T05:41:36","slug":"second-time-unlucky-covid-restrictions-derail-japan-pms-holiday-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=21672","title":{"rendered":"Second time unlucky: Covid restrictions derail Japan PM&#8217;s holiday &#8211; again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shinzo Abe had planned to visit family during O-bon holiday but political rival Tokyo mayor calls on capital\u2019s residents to stay home <\/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>Millions of people who have been forced to cancel holidays due to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">coronavirus outbreak<\/a> might struggle to sympathise, but Japan\u2019s prime minister, Shinzo Abe, is among those forced to forego his summer break \u2013 and he has a political rival to blame.<\/p>\n<p>Abe, who has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/06\/shinzo-abe-accused-of-going-awol-as-japan-tackles-covid-surge\">criticised<\/a> for his handling of a recent rise in Covid-19 infections, was reportedly due to return to his constituency in Yamaguchi prefecture this week as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/japan\">Japan<\/a> began several days of public holidays.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/14\/second-time-unlucky-covid-restrictions-derail-japan-pms-holiday-again\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shinzo Abe had planned to visit family during O-bon holiday but political rival Tokyo mayor calls on capital\u2019s residents to stay home Coronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageMillions of people who have been forced to cancel holidays&#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":[1069,88,638],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-japan","category-shinzo-abe"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21672","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=21672"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21679,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21672\/revisions\/21679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}