{"id":46665,"date":"2022-07-22T17:46:39","date_gmt":"2022-07-22T08:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/22\/shinzo-abe-state-funeral-growing-opposition-japan"},"modified":"2022-07-22T17:46:39","modified_gmt":"2022-07-22T08:46:39","slug":"plan-for-shinzo-abe-state-funeral-faces-growing-opposition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=46665","title":{"rendered":"Plan for Shinzo Abe state funeral faces growing opposition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cabinet has approved event for 27 September but critics question cost and possible political exploitation<\/p>\n<p>Opposition is mounting to plans to hold a state funeral for the former Japanese prime minister <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/shinzo-abe\">Shinzo Abe<\/a>, who was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/08\/shinzo-abe-japans-former-prime-minister-dies-after-being-shot\">shot dead<\/a> earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>The cabinet on Friday approved arrangements for the funeral \u2013 only the second of its kind for a former Japanese leader in the postwar period \u2013 on 27 September.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/22\/shinzo-abe-state-funeral-growing-opposition-japan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cabinet has approved event for 27 September but critics question cost and possible political exploitationOpposition is mounting to plans to hold a state funeral for the former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe, who was shot dead earlier this month.The&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3189,"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-46665","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\/46665","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\/3189"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46665"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46666,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46665\/revisions\/46666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}