{"id":37456,"date":"2021-09-29T09:33:09","date_gmt":"2021-09-29T00:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/29\/japans-ruling-party-ldp-vote-new-leader-kono-kishida-noda-takaichi"},"modified":"2021-09-29T20:31:09","modified_gmt":"2021-09-29T11:31:09","slug":"japans-ruling-party-votes-for-new-leader-who-is-likely-to-become-next-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=37456","title":{"rendered":"Fumio Kishida set to be new Japanese PM after winning party election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former foreign minister to become PM following face off against vaccination minister Taro Kono<\/p>\n<p>Fumio Kishida, a former foreign minister with a reputation as a consensus builder, is set to become Japan\u2019s prime minister after winning the ruling Liberal Democratic party\u2019s presidential election in a runoff against the vaccination minister, Taro Kono.<\/p>\n<p>The LDP-led coalition holds a majority in both chambers of parliament, meaning Kishida is practically assured of the prime ministership at an extraordinary parliamentary session on Monday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/29\/japans-ruling-party-ldp-vote-new-leader-kono-kishida-noda-takaichi\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former foreign minister to become PM following face off against vaccination minister Taro KonoFumio Kishida, a former foreign minister with a reputation as a consensus builder, is set to become Japan\u2019s prime minister after winning the ruling Liberal De&#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":[41,88,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37456","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=37456"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37462,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37456\/revisions\/37462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}