{"id":46191,"date":"2022-07-08T21:39:37","date_gmt":"2022-07-08T12:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/08\/shinzo-abe-japan-prime-minister-life-profile"},"modified":"2022-07-08T21:39:37","modified_gmt":"2022-07-08T12:39:37","slug":"shinzo-abe-from-young-symbol-of-change-to-japans-longest-serving-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=46191","title":{"rendered":"Shinzo Abe: from young symbol of change to Japan\u2019s longest-serving PM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Groomed for leadership from an early age, his first term was plagued by discord but he seized his second chance<\/p>\n<ul>\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>The people of Japan are in a state of shock after the violent death of the former prime minister Shinzo Abe, the country\u2019s most influential politician of recent decades, who was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/08\/shinzo-abe-japans-former-prime-minister-dies-after-being-shot\">shot while making a campaign speech<\/a> in the western city of Nara on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Japan\u2019s longest-serving leader will be remembered primarily for his political staying power, having returned to office in 2012, six years after being forced out by scandal and poor health.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/08\/shinzo-abe-japan-prime-minister-life-profile\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Groomed for leadership from an early age, his first term was plagued by discord but he seized his second chanceShinzo Abe \u2013 a life in pictures The people of Japan are in a state of shock after the violent death of the former prime minister Shinzo Abe, &#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":[41,88,638,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46191","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\/46191","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=46191"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46192,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46191\/revisions\/46192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}