{"id":67506,"date":"2024-10-27T07:10:07","date_gmt":"2024-10-26T22:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/oct\/26\/japans-new-prime-minister-faces-tight-election"},"modified":"2024-10-27T07:10:07","modified_gmt":"2024-10-26T22:10:07","slug":"japans-new-pm-in-precarious-position-as-country-votes-in-tight-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=67506","title":{"rendered":"Japan\u2019s new PM in precarious position as country votes in tight election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shigeru Ishiba may struggle to win majority, undermining his position as Liberal Democratic party leader<\/p>\n<p>Citizens of Japan will be voting in the country\u2019s tightest election in years on Sunday, with new prime minister Shigeru Ishiba and his juggernaut Liberal Democratic party (LDP) facing potentially their worst result since 2009.<\/p>\n<p>Opinion polls suggest the conservative LDP and its junior coalition partner may fall short of a majority, a result that could deal a knockout blow to Ishiba.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/oct\/26\/japans-new-prime-minister-faces-tight-election\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shigeru Ishiba may struggle to win majority, undermining his position as Liberal Democratic party leaderCitizens of Japan will be voting in the country\u2019s tightest election in years on Sunday, with new prime minister Shigeru Ishiba and his juggernaut Li&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4469,"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-67506","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\/67506","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\/4469"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67506"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67507,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67506\/revisions\/67507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}