{"id":46169,"date":"2022-07-08T16:26:31","date_gmt":"2022-07-08T07:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/08\/abe-shooting-why-gun-violence-is-so-rare-in-zero-tolerance-japan"},"modified":"2022-07-08T16:26:31","modified_gmt":"2022-07-08T07:26:31","slug":"abe-shooting-why-gun-violence-is-so-rare-in-zero-tolerance-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=46169","title":{"rendered":"Abe shooting: why gun violence is so rare in zero-tolerance Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Attack on former PM has sent shockwaves through country with one of world\u2019s lowest rates of gun violence<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2022\/jul\/08\/shinzo-abe-shot-live-news-former-japan-prime-minister-feared-dead-shooting-japanese-pm-attack-speech\">Shinzo Abe shooting: latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><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><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Japan has close to zero tolerance of gun ownership and one of the lowest rates of gun violence in the world, making the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/08\/shinzo-abe-former-japan-prime-minister-shot-during-speech-reports\">attack on Shinzo Abe<\/a> a particularly extraordinary act of violence.<\/p>\n<p>A 1958 postwar law on the possession of swords and firearms states: \u201cNo one shall possess a firearm or firearms or a sword or swords.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/08\/abe-shooting-why-gun-violence-is-so-rare-in-zero-tolerance-japan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attack on former PM has sent shockwaves through country with one of world\u2019s lowest rates of gun violenceShinzo Abe shooting: latest updatesShinzo Abe \u2013 a life in picturesJapan has close to zero tolerance of gun ownership and one of the lowest rates of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3166,"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-46169","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\/46169","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\/3166"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46170,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46169\/revisions\/46170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}