{"id":46167,"date":"2022-07-08T18:09:14","date_gmt":"2022-07-08T09:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/08\/shinzo-abe-japans-former-prime-minister-dies-after-being-shot"},"modified":"2022-07-09T09:42:09","modified_gmt":"2022-07-09T00:42:09","slug":"shinzo-abe-japans-former-prime-minister-dies-after-being-shot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=46167","title":{"rendered":"Shinzo Abe death: shock in Japan at killing of former PM during election campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police believe attacker bore grudge against Abe as some critics question level of security surrounding Japan\u2019s longest-serving PM <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/gallery\/2022\/jul\/08\/shinzo-abe-a-life-in-pictures\">Shinzo Abe \u2013 a life in pictures<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sorrow and disbelief descended on Japan after Shinzo Abe \u2013 the former prime minister and a towering political figure \u2013 was shot dead while giving a campaign speech on Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Abe, 67, was pronounced dead early in the evening, prompting a flood of tributes from current and former world leaders, and anger that a politician could be gunned down in broad daylight in one of the world\u2019s safest societies two days before an election.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/08\/shinzo-abe-japans-former-prime-minister-dies-after-being-shot\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police believe attacker bore grudge against Abe as some critics question level of security surrounding Japan\u2019s longest-serving PM Shinzo Abe \u2013 a life in picturesSorrow and disbelief descended on Japan after Shinzo Abe \u2013 the former prime minister and a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3165,"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":[41,88,638,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","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\/46167","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\/3165"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46167"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46209,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46167\/revisions\/46209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}