{"id":36422,"date":"2021-09-04T15:46:10","date_gmt":"2021-09-04T06:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/04\/outgoing-japanese-pm-backs-vaccine-minister-tara-kono-as-successor-report"},"modified":"2021-09-04T15:46:10","modified_gmt":"2021-09-04T06:46:10","slug":"outgoing-japanese-pm-backs-vaccine-minister-tara-kono-as-successor-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=36422","title":{"rendered":"Outgoing Japanese PM backs vaccine minister Tara Kono as successor \u2013 report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yoshihide Suga understood to want social media-savvy 58-year-old to take over, according to local media<\/p>\n<p>Japan\u2019s outgoing prime minister Yoshihide Suga will back Taro Kono, the popular minister in charge of the country\u2019s vaccination rollout, as his successor, according to reports.<\/p>\n<p>Suga announced on Friday that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/03\/japan-pm-yoshihide-suga-announces-he-wont-run-for-re-election-as-party-leader\">he will not run for leader <\/a>of the ruling Liberal Democratic party this month, meaning that whoever wins the leadership race will become prime minister.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/04\/outgoing-japanese-pm-backs-vaccine-minister-tara-kono-as-successor-report\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yoshihide Suga understood to want social media-savvy 58-year-old to take over, according to local mediaJapan\u2019s outgoing prime minister Yoshihide Suga will back Taro Kono, the popular minister in charge of the country\u2019s vaccination rollout, as his succe&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"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":[88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36422","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\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36422"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36423,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36422\/revisions\/36423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}