{"id":37479,"date":"2021-09-29T22:35:22","date_gmt":"2021-09-29T13:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/29\/fumio-kishida-safe-pair-of-hands-for-japan-ruling-party"},"modified":"2021-09-29T22:35:22","modified_gmt":"2021-09-29T13:35:22","slug":"fumio-kishida-a-safe-pair-of-hands-for-japans-ruling-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=37479","title":{"rendered":"Fumio Kishida: a \u2018safe pair of hands\u2019 for Japan\u2019s ruling party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Analysis: Election result marks return of pragmatic and centrist policies, spearheaded by a decent, if unexciting, leader<\/p>\n<p>Japan\u2019s governing Liberal Democratic party [LDP] has chosen stability and moderation in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/29\/japans-ruling-party-ldp-vote-new-leader-kono-kishida-noda-takaichi\">electing Fumio Kishida as its new leader<\/a> \u2013 a post that all but guarantees that he will become the country\u2019s prime minister on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Kishida, like Taro Kono \u2013 the man he defeated in a second round of voting on Wednesday \u2013 is a hereditary politician in a party packed with MPs who were practically destined at birth to occupy a seat in parliament.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/29\/fumio-kishida-safe-pair-of-hands-for-japan-ruling-party\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Analysis: Election result marks return of pragmatic and centrist policies, spearheaded by a decent, if unexciting, leaderJapan\u2019s governing Liberal Democratic party [LDP] has chosen stability and moderation in electing Fumio Kishida as its new leader \u2013 &#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-37479","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\/37479","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=37479"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37480,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37479\/revisions\/37480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}