{"id":46275,"date":"2022-07-11T14:12:02","date_gmt":"2022-07-11T05:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/11\/shinzo-abe-antony-blinken-says-assassinated-former-japanese-pm-was-man-of-vision"},"modified":"2022-07-11T14:12:02","modified_gmt":"2022-07-11T05:12:02","slug":"shinzo-abe-antony-blinken-says-assassinated-former-japanese-pm-was-man-of-vision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=46275","title":{"rendered":"Shinzo Abe: Antony Blinken says assassinated former Japanese PM was \u2018man of vision\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US secretary of state flies to Japan to give condolences to nation as country\u2019s ruling LDP holds muted celebrations for poll victory<\/p>\n<p>The US secretary of state, Antony Blinken has described assassinated former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe as a \u201cman of vision\u201d, as the country\u2019s ruling party held muted celebrations following <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/10\/shinzo-abe-japanese-voters-back-party-of-former-pm-amid-shooting-fallout\">a resounding election victory<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Liberal Democratic party (LDP), which Abe led for almost a decade, and its junior coalition party increased their majority in the upper house on Sunday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/08\/world-leaders-unite-in-condemning-shinzo-abe-assassination\">two days after Abe was shot<\/a> during a campaign speech in the western city of Nara.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/11\/shinzo-abe-antony-blinken-says-assassinated-former-japanese-pm-was-man-of-vision\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US secretary of state flies to Japan to give condolences to nation as country\u2019s ruling LDP holds muted celebrations for poll victoryThe US secretary of state, Antony Blinken has described assassinated former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe as a &#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":[88,638,45,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","category-shinzo-abe","category-us-foreign-policy","category-us-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46275","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=46275"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46276,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46275\/revisions\/46276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}