{"id":25934,"date":"2020-12-22T16:55:09","date_gmt":"2020-12-22T07:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/22\/ex-japanese-pm-shinzo-abe-questioned-over-cherry-blossom-scandal"},"modified":"2020-12-22T16:55:09","modified_gmt":"2020-12-22T07:55:09","slug":"ex-japanese-pm-shinzo-abe-questioned-over-cherry-blossom-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=25934","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Japanese PM Shinzo Abe questioned over &#8216;cherry blossom&#8217; scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Allegations over dining expenses risk tarnishing Abe\u2019s legacy and could weaken Yoshihide Suga<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/japan\">Japan<\/a> have questioned the former prime minister, Shinzo Abe, over a funding scandal that could harm the country\u2019s current leader, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/14\/yoshihide-suga-the-farmers-son-set-to-be-japans-next-pm\">Yoshihide Suga<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Abe, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/28\/shinzo-abe-to-publicly-address-concerns-about-his-health\">resigned<\/a> in August, apparently due to ill health, volunteered for questioning this week as prosecutors sought to build a case against his secretary over unreported political funds.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/22\/ex-japanese-pm-shinzo-abe-questioned-over-cherry-blossom-scandal\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Allegations over dining expenses risk tarnishing Abe\u2019s legacy and could weaken Yoshihide SugaProsecutors in Japan have questioned the former prime minister, Shinzo Abe, over a funding scandal that could harm the country\u2019s current leader, Yoshihide Suga&#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":[41,88,638,42,1678],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan","category-shinzo-abe","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\/25934","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=25934"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25935,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25934\/revisions\/25935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}