{"id":66780,"date":"2024-09-17T09:34:28","date_gmt":"2024-09-17T00:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/sep\/17\/japan-next-prime-minister-ldp-party-leadership-presidential-poll"},"modified":"2024-09-17T09:34:28","modified_gmt":"2024-09-17T00:34:28","slug":"who-will-japans-next-pm-be-a-policy-wonk-ultra-conservative-or-surfer-making-the-climate-fight-sexy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=66780","title":{"rendered":"Who will Japan\u2019s next PM be? A policy wonk, ultra-conservative or surfer making the climate fight \u2018sexy\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Polls show Shigeru Ishiba, Shinji Koizumi and Sanae Takaichi are best placed to replace PM Fumio Kishida later this month <\/p>\n<p>With just 10 days to go before <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/japan\">Japan<\/a>\u2019s governing party elects a new leader \u2013 who will automatically become prime minister \u2013 the contest is still too close to call.<\/p>\n<p>Among the frontrunners are Shigeru Ishiba, a model aircraft enthusiast and security policy wonk about to embark on his \u201cfinal battle\u201d, and Shinjiro Koizumi, the youthful, photogenic son of a former prime minister who once insisted the fight against climate change could be \u201csexy\u201d and \u201cfun\u201d. The race has been complicated by a new poll in which ruling Liberal Democratic party (LDP) supporters named Sanae Takaichi, the ultra-conservative economic security minister, as their preferred choice.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/sep\/17\/japan-next-prime-minister-ldp-party-leadership-presidential-poll\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Polls show Shigeru Ishiba, Shinji Koizumi and Sanae Takaichi are best placed to replace PM Fumio Kishida later this month With just 10 days to go before Japan\u2019s governing party elects a new leader \u2013 who will automatically become prime minister \u2013 the co&#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-66780","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\/66780","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=66780"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66790,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66780\/revisions\/66790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}