{"id":54358,"date":"2023-04-15T13:33:36","date_gmt":"2023-04-15T04:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/15\/japan-pm-rushed-to-safety-after-object-thrown-at-him-and-blast-heard"},"modified":"2023-04-15T19:46:07","modified_gmt":"2023-04-15T10:46:07","slug":"japan-pm-evacuated-unharmed-after-explosion-following-suspected-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=54358","title":{"rendered":"Japan\u2019s PM escapes explosion unharmed after suspected attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Man detained after what looked like a smoke bomb was thrown at Fumio Kishida just before speech<\/p>\n<p>The Japanese prime minister, Fumio Kishida, has escaped unhurt after he was apparently targeted by an explosive device on Saturday morning. It comes less than a year after the country\u2019s former prime minister, Shinzo Abe, was shot dead while making a campaign speech.<\/p>\n<p>Kishida was safely evacuated after the incident, while a suspect \u2013 named by Japanese media as Ryuji Kimura, 24, a resident of Hyogo prefecture \u2013 was arrested at the scene, reports said.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/15\/japan-pm-rushed-to-safety-after-object-thrown-at-him-and-blast-heard\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Man detained after what looked like a smoke bomb was thrown at Fumio Kishida just before speechThe Japanese prime minister, Fumio Kishida, has escaped unhurt after he was apparently targeted by an explosive device on Saturday morning. It comes less tha&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":203,"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-54358","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\/54358","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\/203"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54358"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54367,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54358\/revisions\/54367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}