{"id":48877,"date":"2022-09-27T22:22:59","date_gmt":"2022-09-27T13:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2022\/sep\/27\/japan-police-hold-protesters-back-outside-shinzo-abe-state-funeral-video"},"modified":"2022-09-27T22:22:59","modified_gmt":"2022-09-27T13:22:59","slug":"japanese-police-hold-protesters-back-outside-shinzo-abes-state-funeral-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=48877","title":{"rendered":"Japanese police hold protesters back outside Shinzo Abe&#8217;s state funeral \u2013 video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Footage on social media shows hundreds of people protesting in Tokyo outside the state funeral of Shinzo Abe, a former prime minister of Japan who was shot dead during a campaign speech three months ago.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Investigators believed the attacker bore a grudge against Abe, and some have questioned the level of security around the high-profile figure. As a result, tens of thousands of police officers have been deployed to the funeral, which was attended by the UK foreign secretary, James Cleverly, and the US vice-president, Kamala Harris<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/27\/state-funeral-for-shinzo-abe-held-in-tokyo-amid-controversy\">State funeral for Shinzo Abe held in Tokyo amid controversy<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/08\/shinzo-abe-japans-former-prime-minister-dies-after-being-shot\">Shinzo Abe death: shock in Japan at killing of former PM during election campaign<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2022\/sep\/27\/japan-police-hold-protesters-back-outside-shinzo-abe-state-funeral-video\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Footage on social media shows hundreds of people protesting in Tokyo outside the state funeral of Shinzo Abe, a former prime minister of Japan who was shot dead during a campaign speech three months ago.&nbsp;Investigators believed the attacker bore a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"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":[88,638],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","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\/48877","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\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48877"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48878,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48877\/revisions\/48878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}