{"id":48045,"date":"2022-09-01T00:39:56","date_gmt":"2022-08-31T15:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/31\/japans-pm-cuts-ties-to-unification-church-after-shinzo-abe-death"},"modified":"2022-09-01T00:39:56","modified_gmt":"2022-08-31T15:39:56","slug":"japans-pm-cuts-ties-to-unification-church-after-shinzo-abe-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=48045","title":{"rendered":"Japan\u2019s PM cuts ties to Unification church after Shinzo Abe death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The church had built close ties with Fumio Kishida\u2019s ruling party and a host of conservative lawmakers<\/p>\n<p>Japan\u2019s prime minister, Fumio Kishida, has announced that his ruling party will cut ties with the Unification church after a widening scandal caused by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/08\/shinzo-abe-former-japan-prime-minister-shot-during-speech-reports\">assassination of the party\u2019s former leader Shinzo Abe<\/a> last month. Kishida also apologised for causing the loss of public trust in politics.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/01\/revelations-shinzo-abe-death-unification-church-moonies-political-influence-japan\">Cozy ties<\/a> between members of Kishida\u2019s governing Liberal Democratic party, many of them belonging to Abe\u2019s faction, and the South Korean-born church have surfaced since Abe was shot to death while giving a campaign speech in July.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/31\/japans-pm-cuts-ties-to-unification-church-after-shinzo-abe-death\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The church had built close ties with Fumio Kishida\u2019s ruling party and a host of conservative lawmakersJapan\u2019s prime minister, Fumio Kishida, has announced that his ruling party will cut ties with the Unification church after a widening scandal caused b&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2549,"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-48045","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\/48045","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\/2549"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48045"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48046,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48045\/revisions\/48046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}