{"id":22704,"date":"2020-09-14T09:40:02","date_gmt":"2020-09-14T00:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/14\/yoshihide-suga-the-farmers-son-set-to-be-japans-next-pm"},"modified":"2020-09-14T09:40:02","modified_gmt":"2020-09-14T00:40:02","slug":"yoshihide-suga-the-farmers-son-set-to-be-japans-next-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=22704","title":{"rendered":"Yoshihide Suga: the farmer&#8217;s son set to be Japan&#8217;s next PM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The favourite may be the Abe continuity candidate but his background could not be more different <\/p>\n<p>Nothing short of <em>force majeure<\/em> will prevent Yoshihide Suga from becoming Japan\u2019s prime minister when the ruling Liberal Democratic party (LDP) elects a leader to replace Shinzo Abe this week.<\/p>\n<p>As chief cabinet secretary for almost eight years, Suga has acted as the administration\u2019s de facto second-in-command, batting away tricky questions at twice-daily press briefings, advising Abe on policy and reining in Japan\u2019s recalcitrant bureaucracy.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/14\/yoshihide-suga-the-farmers-son-set-to-be-japans-next-pm\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The favourite may be the Abe continuity candidate but his background could not be more different Nothing short of force majeure will prevent Yoshihide Suga from becoming Japan\u2019s prime minister when the ruling Liberal Democratic party (LDP) elects a lea&#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-22704","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\/22704","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=22704"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22705,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22704\/revisions\/22705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}