{"id":36948,"date":"2021-09-17T12:38:31","date_gmt":"2021-09-17T03:38:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/17\/japans-race-for-new-prime-minister-kicks-off-with-tight-battle-for-leadership"},"modified":"2021-09-17T12:38:31","modified_gmt":"2021-09-17T03:38:31","slug":"japans-race-for-new-prime-minister-kicks-off-with-tight-battle-for-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=36948","title":{"rendered":"Japan\u2019s race for new prime minister kicks off with tight battle for leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four candidates vying for head of the Liberal Democratic party include two women hoping to lead a country that has never had a female PM<\/p>\n<p>The campaign to become Japan\u2019s next prime minister has kicked off, with four candidates vying for leadership of the ruling party in an unusually close race.<\/p>\n<p>The candidates include two women hoping to lead a country that has never had a female prime minister, though both are considered long shots.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/17\/japans-race-for-new-prime-minister-kicks-off-with-tight-battle-for-leadership\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four candidates vying for head of the Liberal Democratic party include two women hoping to lead a country that has never had a female PMThe campaign to become Japan\u2019s next prime minister has kicked off, with four candidates vying for leadership of the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"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-36948","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\/36948","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\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36948"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36949,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36948\/revisions\/36949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}