{"id":25748,"date":"2020-12-16T20:28:44","date_gmt":"2020-12-16T11:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/16\/honeymoon-over-for-yoshihide-suga-japan-pm-covid-third-wave"},"modified":"2020-12-16T20:28:44","modified_gmt":"2020-12-16T11:28:44","slug":"honeymoon-over-for-japans-new-pm-amid-covid-third-wave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=25748","title":{"rendered":"Honeymoon over for Japan&#8217;s new PM amid Covid third wave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Support for Yoshihide Suga plunges as his travel policy is blamed in part for rise in infections<\/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>Yoshihide Suga\u2019s honeymoon period as Japan\u2019s prime minister had barely begun when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">coronavirus<\/a> intervened. Now, two months into his leadership, he finds himself battling a resurgent outbreak and disillusionment among voters.<\/p>\n<p>Enthusiasm for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/14\/yoshihide-suga-the-farmers-son-set-to-be-japans-next-pm\">farmer\u2019s son<\/a> who worked part-time to pay his way through university has all but evaporated since he took office in late September. As Japan prepares for a holiday period that experts fear could be overshadowed by a sharp rise in Covid-19 cases, an anxious public has Suga in its sights.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/16\/honeymoon-over-for-yoshihide-suga-japan-pm-covid-third-wave\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Support for Yoshihide Suga plunges as his travel policy is blamed in part for rise in infectionsCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageYoshihide Suga\u2019s honeymoon period as Japan\u2019s prime minister had barely begun when coronavirus in&#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":[41,1066,88,42,1678],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-japan","category-world-news","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\/25748","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=25748"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25749,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25748\/revisions\/25749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}