{"id":48237,"date":"2022-09-06T18:46:04","date_gmt":"2022-09-06T09:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/06\/japan-state-funeral-shinzo-abe-opposition"},"modified":"2022-09-06T18:46:04","modified_gmt":"2022-09-06T09:46:04","slug":"japans-state-funeral-for-shinzo-abe-to-cost-more-than-10m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=48237","title":{"rendered":"Japan\u2019s state funeral for Shinzo Abe to cost more than \u00a310m"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Public opposition to ceremony grows over cost to taxpayer and ex-PM\u2019s ties to Unification church<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/japan\">Japan<\/a> will spend about 1.65bn yen (\u00a310.1m) on the increasingly controversial state funeral for the former prime minister <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/08\/shinzo-abe-former-japan-prime-minister-shot-during-speech-reports\">Shinzo Abe<\/a>, who was shot dead during a campaign speech in July, amid growing public opposition to the plan.<\/p>\n<p>The government has come under pressure to cancel the ceremony, with opinion polls showing that a majority of voters oppose it due to the cost to the taxpayer and revelations about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/01\/revelations-shinzo-abe-death-unification-church-moonies-political-influence-japan\">ruling party politicians\u2019 ties to the Unification church<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/06\/japan-state-funeral-shinzo-abe-opposition\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Public opposition to ceremony grows over cost to taxpayer and ex-PM\u2019s ties to Unification churchJapan will spend about 1.65bn yen (\u00a310.1m) on the increasingly controversial state funeral for the former prime minister Shinzo Abe, who was shot dead durin&#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-48237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan","category-shinzo-abe","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48237","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=48237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48238,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48237\/revisions\/48238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}