{"id":36362,"date":"2021-09-03T13:50:17","date_gmt":"2021-09-03T04:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/03\/japan-pm-yoshihide-suga-announces-he-wont-run-for-re-election-as-party-leader"},"modified":"2021-09-03T13:50:17","modified_gmt":"2021-09-03T04:50:17","slug":"japan-pm-yoshihide-suga-announces-he-wont-run-for-re-election-as-party-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=36362","title":{"rendered":"Japan PM Yoshihide Suga announces he won\u2019t run for re-election as party leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leader dogged by poor opinion ratings unexpectedly announces intention to step down after just a year amid anger over Covid response<\/p>\n<p>Japan\u2019s prime minister, Yoshihide Suga, is to step down from his party\u2019s leadership this month amid mounting discontent at his government\u2019s handling of the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe battle against the coronavirus takes a vast amount of energy and I don\u2019t feel it is possible to carry on with that and fight the upcoming election for the party leadership,\u201d said Suga in a brief statement to reporters, during which he took no questions.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/03\/japan-pm-yoshihide-suga-announces-he-wont-run-for-re-election-as-party-leader\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leader dogged by poor opinion ratings unexpectedly announces intention to step down after just a year amid anger over Covid responseJapan\u2019s prime minister, Yoshihide Suga, is to step down from his party\u2019s leadership this month amid mounting discontent &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"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":[41,88,1678],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan","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\/36362","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\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36362"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36363,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36362\/revisions\/36363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}