{"id":66254,"date":"2024-08-16T09:22:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-16T00:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/aug\/16\/who-will-be-japan-next-pm-election-candidates-ldp-liberal-democratic-party"},"modified":"2024-08-16T09:22:00","modified_gmt":"2024-08-16T00:22:00","slug":"who-will-be-japans-next-pm-ruling-ldp-set-to-begin-especially-chaotic-party-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=66254","title":{"rendered":"Who will be Japan\u2019s next PM? Ruling LDP set to begin \u2018especially chaotic\u2019 party election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two women and two MPs under the age of 50 are on potential list of candidates after current PM Fumio Kishida decided to step down<\/p>\n<p>After a week in which Japan\u2019s citizens braced themselves for a possible <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/aug\/09\/japan-pm-fumio-kishida-asia-visit-cancelled-earthquake\">megaquake<\/a>, the biggest seismic shift came from its political epicentre, as the prime minister, Fumio Kishida, announced his decision to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/aug\/14\/japan-pm-fumio-kishida-stepping-down-september\">step down<\/a> next month.<\/p>\n<p>His three years in office will end in late September when his ruling Liberal Democratic party [LDP] selects a new president, who is assured of being approved as Japan\u2019s next prime minister in the LDP-controlled parliament.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/aug\/16\/who-will-be-japan-next-pm-election-candidates-ldp-liberal-democratic-party\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two women and two MPs under the age of 50 are on potential list of candidates after current PM Fumio Kishida decided to step downAfter a week in which Japan\u2019s citizens braced themselves for a possible megaquake, the biggest seismic shift came from its &#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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66254","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=66254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66255,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66254\/revisions\/66255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}