{"id":47825,"date":"2022-08-25T17:12:19","date_gmt":"2022-08-25T08:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/25\/japan-police-chief-to-resign-after-fatal-shooting-of-shinzo-abe"},"modified":"2022-08-25T17:12:19","modified_gmt":"2022-08-25T08:12:19","slug":"japans-police-chief-to-resign-after-fatal-shooting-of-shinzo-abe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=47825","title":{"rendered":"Japan\u2019s police chief to resign after fatal shooting of Shinzo Abe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Itaru Nakamura says fresh start needed after assassination \u2018to ensure this never happens again\u2019 <\/p>\n<p>Japan\u2019s most senior police officer has said he will resign to take responsibility for security lapses leading up to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/08\/shinzo-abe-japans-former-prime-minister-dies-after-being-shot\">fatal shooting<\/a> last month of the former prime minister, Shinzo Abe.<\/p>\n<p>Itaru Nakamura said on Thursday that he intended to step down as head of the national police agency to give the organisation a \u201cfresh start\u201d, weeks after Abe was gunned down while making an election campaign speech.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/25\/japan-police-chief-to-resign-after-fatal-shooting-of-shinzo-abe\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Itaru Nakamura says fresh start needed after assassination \u2018to ensure this never happens again\u2019 Japan\u2019s most senior police officer has said he will resign to take responsibility for security lapses leading up to the fatal shooting last month of the for&#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":[41,88,638,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47825","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\/47825","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=47825"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47826,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47825\/revisions\/47826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}