{"id":74076,"date":"2025-09-08T14:25:34","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T05:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/sep\/08\/japan-shigeru-ishiba-resignation-next-pm-will-face-problem-that-wont-go-away"},"modified":"2025-09-08T14:25:34","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T05:25:34","slug":"japans-next-pm-will-face-a-problem-that-wont-go-away-with-shigeru-ishibas-resignation-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=74076","title":{"rendered":"Japan\u2019s next PM will face a problem that won\u2019t go away with Shigeru Ishiba\u2019s resignation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ruling Liberal Democratic party is still grappling with the fallout from a years-old funding scandal that may see it go into opposition for just the third time in its history<\/p>\n<p>The precise timing of Japanese prime minister <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/sep\/07\/japan-pm-shigeru-ishiba-resign\">Shigeru Ishiba\u2019s resignation announcement<\/a> \u2013 on a Sunday evening \u2013 took many by surprise; but the countdown to his departure arguably began just weeks after he took office.<\/p>\n<p>Having won the presidency of the Liberal Democratic party (LDP) \u2013 a formidable political force that has governed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/japan\">Japan<\/a> for much of the past seven decades \u2013 Ishiba called a snap election in search of a public mandate after a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/apr\/28\/anger-at-party-funding-scandal-in-japan-threatens-to-bring-down-pm-kishida\">major funding scandal<\/a>, and to silence his opponents on the right of the party.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/sep\/08\/japan-shigeru-ishiba-resignation-next-pm-will-face-problem-that-wont-go-away\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ruling Liberal Democratic party is still grappling with the fallout from a years-old funding scandal that may see it go into opposition for just the third time in its historyThe precise timing of Japanese prime minister Shigeru Ishiba\u2019s resignation&#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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74076","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=74076"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74089,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74076\/revisions\/74089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}