{"id":66976,"date":"2024-09-27T16:29:55","date_gmt":"2024-09-27T07:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/sep\/27\/japan-shigeru-ishiba-prime-minister-liberal-democratic-party"},"modified":"2024-09-27T16:29:55","modified_gmt":"2024-09-27T07:29:55","slug":"japans-ruling-party-picks-shigeru-ishiba-to-become-next-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=66976","title":{"rendered":"Japan\u2019s ruling party picks Shigeru Ishiba to become next PM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former defence chief elected leader of Liberal Democrats and vows to end \u2018widespread distrust\u2019 in party<\/p>\n<p>Shigeru Ishiba, a veteran moderate, will next week be installed as Japan\u2019s prime minister after he was elected leader of the governing Liberal Democratic party (LDP).<\/p>\n<p>The 67-year-old, a former defence minister, beat his rightwing rival Sanae Takaichi, who was attempting to become the country\u2019s first female prime minister, by 215 votes to 194 in a runoff election at the LDP headquarters in Tokyo on Friday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/sep\/27\/japan-shigeru-ishiba-prime-minister-liberal-democratic-party\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former defence chief elected leader of Liberal Democrats and vows to end \u2018widespread distrust\u2019 in partyShigeru Ishiba, a veteran moderate, will next week be installed as Japan\u2019s prime minister after he was elected leader of the governing Liberal Democr&#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-66976","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\/66976","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=66976"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66977,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66976\/revisions\/66977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}