{"id":22757,"date":"2020-09-16T14:34:28","date_gmt":"2020-09-16T05:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/16\/yoshihide-suga-shinzo-abe-defends-legacy-stands-down-japan-prime-minister"},"modified":"2020-09-16T14:34:28","modified_gmt":"2020-09-16T05:34:28","slug":"yoshihide-suga-confirmed-as-japan-prime-minister-as-abe-defends-proud-legacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=22757","title":{"rendered":"Yoshihide Suga confirmed as Japan prime minister as Abe defends &#8216;proud&#8217; legacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MPs approve Suga as PM, as outgoing leader promises support for successor who vowed to continue his policies<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/14\/yoshihide-suga-the-farmers-son-set-to-be-japans-next-pm\">Yoshihide Suga<\/a> has been installed as Japan\u2019s prime minister, after the lower house of parliament approved his appointment as successor to Shinzo Abe.<\/p>\n<p>The 71-year-old, who served as Abe\u2019s right-hand man, has promised to continue with his predecessor\u2019s economic policies as he attempts to steer Japan out of a deep recession and bring the coronavirus pandemic under control less than a year before Tokyo is hoping to host a postponed summer Olympics.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/16\/yoshihide-suga-shinzo-abe-defends-legacy-stands-down-japan-prime-minister\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MPs approve Suga as PM, as outgoing leader promises support for successor who vowed to continue his policiesYoshihide Suga has been installed as Japan\u2019s prime minister, after the lower house of parliament approved his appointment as successor to Shinzo&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":165,"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":[41,88,638,1678],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan","category-shinzo-abe","category-yoshihide-suga"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22757","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\/165"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22757"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22759,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22757\/revisions\/22759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}