{"id":46161,"date":"2022-07-08T19:25:10","date_gmt":"2022-07-08T10:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2022\/jul\/08\/shinzo-abe-japan-longest-serving-prime-minister-video-obituary"},"modified":"2022-07-08T19:25:10","modified_gmt":"2022-07-08T10:25:10","slug":"remembering-shinzo-abe-japans-longest-serving-prime-minister-video-obituary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=46161","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Shinzo Abe, Japan&#8217;s longest-serving prime minister \u2013 video obituary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The former Japanese prime minister has died after being shot while making a speech in the western city of Nara. He is remembered for his &#8216;Abenomics&#8217; policy to lift the world\u2019s third biggest economy out of deflation and for supporting a more prominent role for Japan\u2019s military to counter growing threats from North Korea and a more assertive China. Abe announced his surprise resignation in 2020 citing health reasons<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/08\/shinzo-abe-japans-former-prime-minister-dies-after-being-shot\">Shinzo Abe, Japan\u2019s former prime minister, dies after being shot<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2022\/jul\/08\/shinzo-abe-japan-longest-serving-prime-minister-video-obituary\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The former Japanese prime minister has died after being shot while making a speech in the western city of Nara. He is remembered for his &#8216;Abenomics&#8217; policy to lift the world\u2019s third biggest economy out of deflation and for supporting a more prominent r&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"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":[88,638,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","category-shinzo-abe","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\/46161","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\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46162,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46161\/revisions\/46162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}