{"id":65076,"date":"2024-06-20T14:49:58","date_gmt":"2024-06-20T05:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jun\/20\/tokyo-governor-election-2024-yuriko-koike-renho-murata"},"modified":"2024-06-20T14:49:58","modified_gmt":"2024-06-20T05:49:58","slug":"tokyo-election-demographic-crisis-the-top-issue-as-two-women-vie-for-job-of-governor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=65076","title":{"rendered":"Tokyo election: demographic crisis the top issue as two women vie for job of governor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Conservative Yuriko Koike is seeking a third term with leftist Renho Murata her main challenger as the city grapples with falling birth rate<\/p>\n<p>The race to become Tokyo\u2019s next governor has kicked off, with two women in the lead to run the world\u2019s most populous city \u2013 a rarity in a country where <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/07\/i-decided-i-could-do-better-than-them-the-women-taking-on-japans-male-dominated-politics\">comparatively few women occupy high political office<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Millions of voters in Tokyo will elect their governor early next month. The successful candidate\u2019s most urgent job has a more familiar ring, however: to address the capital\u2019s accelerating <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/26\/japan-population-how-many-people-drops-first-time-births-deaths\">demographic crisis<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jun\/20\/tokyo-governor-election-2024-yuriko-koike-renho-murata\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conservative Yuriko Koike is seeking a third term with leftist Renho Murata her main challenger as the city grapples with falling birth rateThe race to become Tokyo\u2019s next governor has kicked off, with two women in the lead to run the world\u2019s most popu&#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-65076","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\/65076","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=65076"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65077,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65076\/revisions\/65077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}