{"id":8891,"date":"2019-09-11T16:35:19","date_gmt":"2019-09-11T07:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/sep\/11\/shinzo-abe-promotes-rising-star-shinjiro-koizumi-in-cabinet-reshuffle"},"modified":"2019-09-11T16:35:19","modified_gmt":"2019-09-11T07:35:19","slug":"shinzo-abe-promotes-rising-star-koizumi-in-cabinet-reshuffle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=8891","title":{"rendered":"Shinzo Abe promotes rising star Koizumi in cabinet reshuffle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speculation rises over Abe\u2019s successor as PM set to become Japan\u2019s longest-serving leader<\/p>\n<p>Japan\u2019s prime minister, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/shinzo-abe\">Shinzo Abe<\/a>, has brought one of the country\u2019s rising political stars into his cabinet, sparking speculation over his successor as he prepares to mark a record-breaking period in office.<\/p>\n<p>But Shinjiro Koizumi, the son of the former prime minister Junichiro Koizumi, faces an early test of his abilities after he was appointed environment minister on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/sep\/11\/shinzo-abe-promotes-rising-star-shinjiro-koizumi-in-cabinet-reshuffle\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speculation rises over Abe\u2019s successor as PM set to become Japan\u2019s longest-serving leaderJapan\u2019s prime minister, Shinzo Abe, has brought one of the country\u2019s rising political stars into his cabinet, sparking speculation over his successor as he prepare&#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":[41,88,638,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan","category-shinzo-abe","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\/8891","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=8891"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8892,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8891\/revisions\/8892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}