{"id":37635,"date":"2021-10-04T15:57:59","date_gmt":"2021-10-04T06:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/04\/new-japan-pm-fumio-kishida-snap-election-october"},"modified":"2021-10-04T15:57:59","modified_gmt":"2021-10-04T06:57:59","slug":"new-japan-pm-to-call-snap-election-on-31-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=37635","title":{"rendered":"New Japan PM to call snap election on 31 October"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fumio Kishida takes advantage of honeymoon period after being approved by parliament as country\u2019s leader<\/p>\n<p>Japan\u2019s new prime minister, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/29\/fumio-kishida-safe-pair-of-hands-for-japan-ruling-party\">Fumio Kishida<\/a>, has decided to seek an early mandate from the country\u2019s voters, using his first day in office to call an election for the end of the month, several weeks earlier than expected.<strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Kishida, who was approved by parliament as the country\u2019s leader on Monday, surprised many pundits who believed he would give his Liberal Democratic party (LDP) more time to regroup after a disappointing year under his predecessor, Yoshihide Suga.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/04\/new-japan-pm-fumio-kishida-snap-election-october\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fumio Kishida takes advantage of honeymoon period after being approved by parliament as country\u2019s leaderJapan\u2019s new prime minister, Fumio Kishida, has decided to seek an early mandate from the country\u2019s voters, using his first day in office to call an &#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-37635","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\/37635","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=37635"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37636,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37635\/revisions\/37636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}