{"id":35006,"date":"2021-08-10T13:21:18","date_gmt":"2021-08-10T04:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/10\/support-for-japans-pm-reaches-all-time-low-over-covid-19-despite-olympics-success"},"modified":"2021-08-10T13:21:18","modified_gmt":"2021-08-10T04:21:18","slug":"support-for-japans-pm-reaches-all-time-low-over-covid-19-despite-olympics-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=35006","title":{"rendered":"Support for Japan\u2019s PM reaches all-time low over Covid-19, despite Olympics success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Public support for Yoshihide Suga\u2019s cabinet dipped below 30%, despite widespread support for going ahead with the Games<\/p>\n<p>Public support for the government of Japan\u2019s prime minister, Yoshihide Suga, has slumped to an all-time low, despite evidence that most people support the decision to go ahead with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/olympic-games-2020\">Tokyo Olympics<\/a> during the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Suga had been hoping to bask in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2021\/aug\/08\/tokyo-says-goodbye-to-the-games-with-grace-and-sense-of-relief\">afterglow of the Games, which ended on Sunday<\/a>, but support for his cabinet has dipped below 30% for the first time <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/16\/yoshihide-suga-shinzo-abe-defends-legacy-stands-down-japan-prime-minister\">since he became prime minister last September<\/a>, largely over its response to a recent surge in infections.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/10\/support-for-japans-pm-reaches-all-time-low-over-covid-19-despite-olympics-success\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Public support for Yoshihide Suga\u2019s cabinet dipped below 30%, despite widespread support for going ahead with the GamesPublic support for the government of Japan\u2019s prime minister, Yoshihide Suga, has slumped to an all-time low, despite evidence that mo&#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":[41,1066,914,88,342,203,882,42,1678],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-infectious-diseases","category-japan","category-olympic-games","category-sport","category-tokyo-olympic-games-2020","category-world-news","category-yoshihide-suga"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35006","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=35006"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35007,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35006\/revisions\/35007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}