{"id":48871,"date":"2022-09-27T16:55:25","date_gmt":"2022-09-27T07:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/27\/state-funeral-for-shinzo-abe-held-in-tokyo-amid-controversy"},"modified":"2022-09-27T16:55:25","modified_gmt":"2022-09-27T07:55:25","slug":"state-funeral-for-shinzo-abe-held-in-tokyo-amid-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=48871","title":{"rendered":"State funeral for Shinzo Abe held in Tokyo amid controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Public anger at  cost of  ceremony for former PM and revelations over his party\u2019s ties to religious group<\/p>\n<p>A state funeral for Japan\u2019s longest-serving prime minister, Shinzo Abe, has been held in Tokyo amid public anger over the cost of the ceremony and revelations over his party\u2019s ties to a controversial religious group.<\/p>\n<p>More than 4,000 guests, including the US vice-president, Kamala Harris, and the British foreign secretary, James Cleverly, stood in silence as a member of Japan\u2019s self-defence forces entered the Nippon Budokan hall, where a 19-gun salute sounded in honour of the assassinated former leader.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/27\/state-funeral-for-shinzo-abe-held-in-tokyo-amid-controversy\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Public anger at  cost of  ceremony for former PM and revelations over his party\u2019s ties to religious groupA state funeral for Japan\u2019s longest-serving prime minister, Shinzo Abe, has been held in Tokyo amid public anger over the cost of the ceremony and &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":344,"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-48871","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\/48871","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\/344"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48871"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48872,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48871\/revisions\/48872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}