{"id":38534,"date":"2021-11-01T03:09:42","date_gmt":"2021-10-31T18:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/31\/ruling-party-of-fumio-kishida-wins-smaller-majority-in-japanese-election"},"modified":"2021-11-01T10:45:50","modified_gmt":"2021-11-01T01:45:50","slug":"ruling-party-of-fumio-kishida-wins-smaller-majority-in-japanese-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=38534","title":{"rendered":"Ruling party of Fumio Kishida wins comfortable victory in Japanese election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Conservative LDP along with coalition partner Komeito retain control of parliament, defying expectations<\/p>\n<p>Japan\u2019s ruling conservative party defied expectations in Sunday\u2019s general election, with a comfortable victory that will boost the prime minister, Fumio Kishida, as he attempts to steer the economy out of the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Kishida\u2019s Liberal Democratic party secured 261 seats in the 465-member lower house \u2013 the more powerful of Japan\u2019s two-chamber Diet \u2013 slightly down on its pre-election 276 seats.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/31\/ruling-party-of-fumio-kishida-wins-smaller-majority-in-japanese-election\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conservative LDP along with coalition partner Komeito retain control of parliament, defying expectationsJapan\u2019s ruling conservative party defied expectations in Sunday\u2019s general election, with a comfortable victory that will boost the prime minister, F&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":344,"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":[41,1066,88,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-japan","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38534","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\/344"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38534"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38548,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38534\/revisions\/38548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}