{"id":52085,"date":"2023-01-23T13:53:35","date_gmt":"2023-01-23T04:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jan\/23\/japan-pm-aide-told-off-by-his-ashamed-mother-for-putting-hands-in-pockets-on-biden-trip"},"modified":"2023-01-23T13:53:35","modified_gmt":"2023-01-23T04:53:35","slug":"japan-pm-aide-told-off-by-his-ashamed-mother-for-putting-hands-in-pockets-on-biden-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=52085","title":{"rendered":"Japan PM aide told off by his \u2018ashamed\u2019 mother for putting hands in pockets on Biden trip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Social media users said Seiji Kihara had bad manners and \u2018more attitude than the prime minister\u2019 but it was his mother\u2019s comments that struck home<\/p>\n<p>A senior aide to Japan\u2019s prime minister, Fumio Kishida, has apologised for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Xvlqxw3C0NU\">putting his hands in his pockets<\/a> during an official trip to the US, admitting that his mother had scolded him and told him she was \u201cashamed\u201d of him.<\/p>\n<p>Seiji Kihara, the deputy chief cabinet secretary, revealed on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QSBulSO0M2A&amp;t=1835s\">YouTube<\/a> that his mother had read comments that he was \u201cdisgracing his parents\u201d after he was caught with his hands in his trouser pockets as Kishida spoke to reporters outside Blair House in Washington.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jan\/23\/japan-pm-aide-told-off-by-his-ashamed-mother-for-putting-hands-in-pockets-on-biden-trip\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social media users said Seiji Kihara had bad manners and \u2018more attitude than the prime minister\u2019 but it was his mother\u2019s comments that struck homeA senior aide to Japan\u2019s prime minister, Fumio Kishida, has apologised for putting his hands in his pocket&#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":[41,88,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan","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\/52085","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=52085"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52086,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52085\/revisions\/52086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}