{"id":22758,"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":"2020-09-16T17:39:35","modified_gmt":"2020-09-16T08:39:35","slug":"yoshihide-suga-confirmed-as-japan-prime-minister-as-abe-defends-proud-legacy-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=22758","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 and promised a \u201creform-minded, hard-working\u201d cabinet as the outgoing leader, Shinzo Abe, defended his record.<\/p>\n<p>The 71-year-old Suga, who served as Abe\u2019s right-hand man for almost eight years, has promised to leave economic policy largely unchanged 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 and promised a \u201creform-minded, hard-working\u201d cabinet as the outgoing leader, 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-22758","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\/22758","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=22758"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22778,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22758\/revisions\/22778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}