{"id":54368,"date":"2023-04-15T19:28:04","date_gmt":"2023-04-15T10:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2023\/apr\/15\/device-explodes-near-japans-prime-minister-fumio-kishida-video"},"modified":"2023-04-15T19:28:04","modified_gmt":"2023-04-15T10:28:04","slug":"device-explodes-near-japans-prime-minister-fumio-kishida-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=54368","title":{"rendered":"Device explodes near Japan&#8217;s prime minister Fumio Kishida \u2013 video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Japanese prime minister, Fumio Kishida, was evacuated unharmed after a blast at a western port. A suspect was apprehended for allegedly throwing an explosive device, local media reported. NHK said the explosion occurred just before Kishida was about to begin a speech and no injuries had been reported. Kishida was visiting the Saikazaki port, in Wakayama prefecture, to support his ruling party&#8217;s candidate in a local election. The incident comes only nine months after the former prime minister <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/12\/family-and-friends-of-shinzo-abe-attend-private-funeral-in-tokyo\">Shinzo Abe was assassinated<\/a> while delivering a campaign speech in the western city of Nara.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\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\">Japan PM evacuated unharmed after explosion following suspected attack<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2023\/apr\/15\/device-explodes-near-japans-prime-minister-fumio-kishida-video\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Japanese prime minister, Fumio Kishida, was evacuated unharmed after a blast at a western port. A suspect was apprehended for allegedly throwing an explosive device, local media reported. NHK said the explosion occurred just before Kishida was abou&#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":[41,88,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan","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\/54368","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=54368"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54412,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54368\/revisions\/54412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}