{"id":46228,"date":"2022-07-09T22:05:35","date_gmt":"2022-07-09T13:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/09\/shinzo-abe-assassination-japan-election-polls"},"modified":"2022-07-09T22:05:35","modified_gmt":"2022-07-09T13:05:35","slug":"shinzo-abe-assassination-japanese-head-to-polls-in-grief-and-disbelief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=46228","title":{"rendered":"Shinzo Abe assassination: Japanese head to polls in grief and disbelief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prime minister Fumio Kishida warns violence will not be tolerated in defiant speech after the murder of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/08\/shinzo-abe-obituary\">former leader<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many Japanese voters will go to the polls on Sunday with a heavy heart, but also with a sense of quiet defiance, as they cast their ballots just two days after Shinzo Abe, the country\u2019s most influential politician of modern times, was shot dead while making a campaign speech.<\/p>\n<p>As the country struggled to come to terms with the first assassination of a current or former leader for almost 90 years, officials in the Liberal Democratic party (LDP), which Abe dominated for a decade, insisted his death would not derail the democratic process.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/09\/shinzo-abe-assassination-japan-election-polls\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime minister Fumio Kishida warns violence will not be tolerated in defiant speech after the murder of former leaderMany Japanese voters will go to the polls on Sunday with a heavy heart, but also with a sense of quiet defiance, as they cast their bal&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":271,"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":[41,1006,88,638,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-gun-crime","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\/46228","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\/271"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46229,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46228\/revisions\/46229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}