{"id":46221,"date":"2022-07-10T00:01:03","date_gmt":"2022-07-09T15:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/09\/shinzo-abe-japan-police-admit-problems-security"},"modified":"2022-07-10T13:24:03","modified_gmt":"2022-07-10T04:24:03","slug":"shinzo-abe-police-admit-problems-with-security-for-former-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=46221","title":{"rendered":"Shinzo Abe: police admit security \u2018problems\u2019 for former PM as election vote begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police pledge thorough investigation into security flaws as polls open for upper house elections amid increased police presence<\/p>\n<p>Police in Japan have admitted there were \u201cproblems\u201d with security for Shinzo Abe, as voters went to the polls for upper house elections two days after the former prime minister was assassinated on the campaign trail.<\/p>\n<p>The head of police in the Nara region where Abe was killed admitted on Saturday that there were \u201cundeniable\u201d flaws in security for the former leader.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/09\/shinzo-abe-japan-police-admit-problems-security\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police pledge thorough investigation into security flaws as polls open for upper house elections amid increased police presencePolice in Japan have admitted there were \u201cproblems\u201d with security for Shinzo Abe, as voters went to the polls for upper house&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3170,"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-46221","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\/46221","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\/3170"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46221"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46241,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46221\/revisions\/46241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}