{"id":48701,"date":"2022-09-21T12:56:27","date_gmt":"2022-09-21T03:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/21\/shinzo-abe-man-sets-himself-alight-in-protest-at-state-funeral-for-killed-japan-pm"},"modified":"2022-09-21T12:56:27","modified_gmt":"2022-09-21T03:56:27","slug":"shinzo-abe-man-sets-himself-alight-in-protest-at-state-funeral-for-killed-japan-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=48701","title":{"rendered":"Shinzo Abe: man sets himself alight in protest at state funeral for killed Japan PM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Protester sustains widespread burns as Japan wrestles with legacy of leader whose death revealed scale of politicians\u2019 links to Unification church<\/p>\n<p>A man has set himself alight near the Japanese prime minister\u2019s office, apparently in protest against next week\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/22\/shinzo-abe-state-funeral-growing-opposition-japan\">state funeral<\/a> for the country\u2019s former prime minister, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/shinzo-abe\">Shinzo Abe<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The man, who has not been named, was initially unconscious and sustained burns over his entire body after the incident in Tokyo on Wednesday morning, less than a week before the controversial send-off for Abe, 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> in July.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/21\/shinzo-abe-man-sets-himself-alight-in-protest-at-state-funeral-for-killed-japan-pm\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Protester sustains widespread burns as Japan wrestles with legacy of leader whose death revealed scale of politicians\u2019 links to Unification churchA man has set himself alight near the Japanese prime minister\u2019s office, apparently in protest against next&#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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan","category-shinzo-abe"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48701","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=48701"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48702,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48701\/revisions\/48702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}