{"id":8741,"date":"2019-09-08T15:08:13","date_gmt":"2019-09-08T06:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/sep\/08\/japans-former-empress-michiko-has-surgery-for-breast-cancer"},"modified":"2019-09-08T15:08:13","modified_gmt":"2019-09-08T06:08:13","slug":"japans-former-empress-michiko-has-surgery-for-breast-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=8741","title":{"rendered":"Japan&#8217;s former empress Michiko has surgery for breast cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 84-year-old Michiko, wife of former emperor Akihito, has undergone surgery for early-stage breast cancer<\/p>\n<p>Japan\u2019s former empress Michiko underwent surgery on Sunday after the 84-year-old was diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer, the imperial household agency said.<\/p>\n<p>Michiko\u2019s husband Akihito <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/apr\/30\/japan-emperor-akihito-abdicate\">formally stepped down as emperor in April<\/a>, the first abdication for 200 years in the world\u2019s oldest monarchy.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/sep\/08\/japans-former-empress-michiko-has-surgery-for-breast-cancer\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 84-year-old Michiko, wife of former emperor Akihito, has undergone surgery for early-stage breast cancerJapan\u2019s former empress Michiko underwent surgery on Sunday after the 84-year-old was diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer, the imperial hous&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":482,"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":[88,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","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\/8741","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\/482"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8741"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8742,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8741\/revisions\/8742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}