{"id":66974,"date":"2024-09-27T19:11:09","date_gmt":"2024-09-27T10:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/sep\/27\/who-is-new-japan-prime-minister-shigeru-ishiba"},"modified":"2024-09-27T19:11:09","modified_gmt":"2024-09-27T10:11:09","slug":"who-is-japans-new-prime-minister-shigeru-ishiba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=66974","title":{"rendered":"Who is Japan\u2019s new prime minister, Shigeru Ishiba?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Moderate faces challenges over cost-of-living crisis, public trust  and threats to regional stability from China and North Korea<\/p>\n<p>Shigeru Ishiba\u2019s determination to lead Japan has never been in question, and now the veteran MP is poised to achieve that goal at the fifth time of asking after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/sep\/27\/japan-shigeru-ishiba-prime-minister-liberal-democratic-party\">winning the race<\/a> to lead the ruling Liberal Democratic party (LDP) on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The 67-year-old will be installed as Japan\u2019s new prime minister on Tuesday by the LDP-controlled parliament.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/sep\/27\/who-is-new-japan-prime-minister-shigeru-ishiba\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moderate faces challenges over cost-of-living crisis, public trust  and threats to regional stability from China and North KoreaShigeru Ishiba\u2019s determination to lead Japan has never been in question, and now the veteran MP is poised to achieve that go&#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-66974","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\/66974","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=66974"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66975,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66974\/revisions\/66975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}