{"id":63659,"date":"2024-04-28T13:00:01","date_gmt":"2024-04-28T04:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/apr\/28\/anger-at-party-funding-scandal-in-japan-threatens-to-bring-down-pm-kishida"},"modified":"2024-04-28T13:00:01","modified_gmt":"2024-04-28T04:00:01","slug":"anger-at-party-funding-scandal-in-japan-threatens-to-bring-down-pm-kishida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=63659","title":{"rendered":"Anger at party funding scandal in Japan threatens to bring down PM Kishida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite talk of a Nobel peace prize, Japan\u2019s leader is facing a backlash among voters as key byelection approaches<\/p>\n<p>In the past fortnight Fumio Kishida has been mentioned as a possible recipient of the Nobel peace prize and praised for a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/apr\/11\/japan-prime-minister-congress-address\">speech to congress<\/a> in which he urged the US not to retreat into isolation.<\/p>\n<p>But since his return to Tokyo after a successful summit with Joe Biden, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/japan\">Japan<\/a>\u2019s prime minister has been buffeted by domestic political headwinds that this weekend could spell the beginning of the end of his administration.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/apr\/28\/anger-at-party-funding-scandal-in-japan-threatens-to-bring-down-pm-kishida\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite talk of a Nobel peace prize, Japan\u2019s leader is facing a backlash among voters as key byelection approachesIn the past fortnight Fumio Kishida has been mentioned as a possible recipient of the Nobel peace prize and praised for a speech to congre&#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":[41,2535,88,1655,638,234,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-cost-of-living-crisis","category-japan","category-nobel-peace-prize","category-shinzo-abe","category-us-congress","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\/63659","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=63659"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63660,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63659\/revisions\/63660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}