{"id":46252,"date":"2022-07-10T21:15:52","date_gmt":"2022-07-10T12:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/10\/shinzo-abe-japanese-voters-back-party-of-former-pm-amid-shooting-fallout"},"modified":"2022-07-10T21:15:52","modified_gmt":"2022-07-10T12:15:52","slug":"shinzo-abe-japanese-voters-back-party-of-former-pm-amid-shooting-fallout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=46252","title":{"rendered":"Shinzo Abe: Japanese voters back party of former PM amid shooting fallout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exit polls show LDP retaining power with comfortable election victory as country mourns <\/p>\n<p>Japan\u2019s ruling party has won a comfortable victory in elections overshadowed by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/09\/shinzo-abe-assassination-japan-election-polls\">assassination<\/a> of the former prime minister, Shinzo Abe.<\/p>\n<p>Exit polls showed that the Liberal Democratic party (LDP), which Abe led until he resigned in 2020, had secured more than half the 125 seats being contested in the 248-seat upper house.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/10\/shinzo-abe-japanese-voters-back-party-of-former-pm-amid-shooting-fallout\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exit polls show LDP retaining power with comfortable election victory as country mourns Japan\u2019s ruling party has won a comfortable victory in elections overshadowed by the assassination of the former prime minister, Shinzo Abe.Exit polls showed that th&#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-46252","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\/46252","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=46252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46253,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46252\/revisions\/46253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}