{"id":54719,"date":"2023-04-29T00:00:25","date_gmt":"2023-04-28T15:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/29\/wolf-warrior-or-entertainer-outspoken-japanese-envoy-shingo-yamagami-has-no-regrets-as-he-departs-australia"},"modified":"2023-04-29T00:00:25","modified_gmt":"2023-04-28T15:00:25","slug":"wolf-warrior-or-entertainer-outspoken-japanese-envoy-shingo-yamagami-has-no-regrets-as-he-departs-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=54719","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Wolf warrior\u2019 or entertainer? Outspoken Japanese envoy Shingo Yamagami has no regrets as he departs Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ambassador has been seen variously as giving Australia a \u2018shake-up\u2019 and \u2018kicking own-goals\u2019 during his Canberra posting<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Get our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2022\/oct\/29\/email-newsletters-guardian-australia-best-daily-news-emails-newsletter-free-sign-up-inbox-subscribe-headlines?CMP=cvau_sfl\">morning and afternoon news emails<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/app.adjust.com\/w4u7jx3\">free app<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/series\/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl\">daily news podcast<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If an ambassador\u2019s job is to win friends and influence people, Shingo Yamagami has done plenty of that.<\/p>\n<p>But Japan\u2019s departing envoy to Australia has also lost friends and alienated others during his two years and four months in Australia.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/29\/wolf-warrior-or-entertainer-outspoken-japanese-envoy-shingo-yamagami-has-no-regrets-as-he-departs-australia\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ambassador has been seen variously as giving Australia a \u2018shake-up\u2019 and \u2018kicking own-goals\u2019 during his Canberra postingGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastIf an ambassador\u2019s job is to win friends and influence p&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2085,"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":[41,43,645,324,50,88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-australian-foreign-policy","category-australian-politics","category-china","category-japan"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54719","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\/2085"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54719"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54720,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54719\/revisions\/54720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}