{"id":72963,"date":"2025-07-21T00:56:56","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T15:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jul\/20\/apan-pm-election-result-exit-polls-predict-loss-of-upper-house"},"modified":"2025-07-21T08:33:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T23:33:17","slug":"japans-pm-accepts-harsh-election-result-as-loss-of-upper-house-predicted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=72963","title":{"rendered":"Japan\u2019s PM accepts \u2018harsh\u2019 election result after losing upper house majority"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ballot heaps pressure on Shigeru Ishiba\u2019s minority government just as it attempts to negotiate deal to avert Trump tariffs <\/p>\n<p>Japanese prime minister Shigeru Ishiba\u2019s future was unclear on Monday after his coalition lost its upper house majority in elections that saw strong gains by a rightwing populist party.<\/p>\n<p>While the ballot does not directly determine whether Ishiba\u2019s minority government falls, it heaps pressure on the embattled leader, who also lost control of the more powerful lower house in October and who has never been popular within his own party.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jul\/20\/apan-pm-election-result-exit-polls-predict-loss-of-upper-house\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ballot heaps pressure on Shigeru Ishiba\u2019s minority government just as it attempts to negotiate deal to avert Trump tariffs Japanese prime minister Shigeru Ishiba\u2019s future was unclear on Monday after his coalition lost its upper house majority in electi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":604,"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":[41,88,706,1218,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan","category-population","category-the-far-right","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72963","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\/604"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72963"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72998,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72963\/revisions\/72998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}