{"id":22148,"date":"2020-08-28T11:10:20","date_gmt":"2020-08-28T02:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/28\/shinzo-abe-to-publicly-address-concerns-about-his-health"},"modified":"2020-08-28T17:35:57","modified_gmt":"2020-08-28T08:35:57","slug":"shinzo-abe-to-publicly-address-concerns-about-his-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=22148","title":{"rendered":"Japan PM Shinzo Abe quits over health concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Abe says return of bowel condition means he cannot continue in his position<\/p>\n<p>Japan\u2019s prime minister, Shinzo Abe, has said he will resign over his declining health, telling a shocked country that the return of a chronic bowel condition had left him unable to steer it through the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPoor health should not influence political decisions, and as long as I\u2019m unable to meet the expectations of the Japanese people, I have decided that I cannot stay on as prime minister and will step down,\u201d Abe told a televised news conference on Friday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/28\/shinzo-abe-to-publicly-address-concerns-about-his-health\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abe says return of bowel condition means he cannot continue in his positionJapan\u2019s prime minister, Shinzo Abe, has said he will resign over his declining health, telling a shocked country that the return of a chronic bowel condition had left him unable&#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-22148","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\/22148","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=22148"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22169,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22148\/revisions\/22169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}