{"id":44004,"date":"2024-09-27T07:03:05","date_gmt":"2024-09-27T07:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=44004"},"modified":"2024-09-27T07:03:16","modified_gmt":"2024-09-27T07:03:16","slug":"japan-ex-defence-minister-shirgeru-ishiba-to-become-next-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2024\/09\/27\/japan-ex-defence-minister-shirgeru-ishiba-to-become-next-pm\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan Ex-Defence Minister Shirgeru Ishiba to become next PM"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Japan\u2019s ruling party on Friday picked former defense minister Shigeru Ishiba as leader, setting him up to become prime minister next week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-dominant-color=\"959297\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" style=\"--dominant-color: #959297;\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"691\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/pub\/2024\/09\/IMG_8460-1024x691.avif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-44005 not-transparent\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/pub\/2024\/09\/IMG_8460-1024x691.avif 1024w, https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/pub\/2024\/09\/IMG_8460-300x203.avif 300w, https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/pub\/2024\/09\/IMG_8460-768x518.avif 768w, https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/pub\/2024\/09\/IMG_8460-750x506.avif 750w, https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/pub\/2024\/09\/IMG_8460-1140x770.avif 1140w, https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/pub\/2024\/09\/IMG_8460-jpeg.avif 1157w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The party leadership win is a ticket to the top job because the Liberal Democratic Party\u2019s ruling coalition currently controls the parliament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Considered a defense policy expert, Ishiba has proposed an Asian version of the NATO military alliance and a more equal Japan-U.S. security alliance. Ishiba is a supporter of&nbsp;<strong>Taiwan\u2019<\/strong>&nbsp;s democracy. He calls for an establishment of a disaster management agency in one of the world\u2019s most disaster-prone countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ishiba beat out Economic Security Minister Sanae Takaichi, a staunch conservative who was running to become the country\u2019s first female prime minister.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A record&nbsp;<strong>nine lawmakers<\/strong>, including two women, ran in a vote decided by LDP members of parliament and about 1 million dues-paying party members. That\u2019s only 1% of the country\u2019s eligible voters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan\u2019s ruling party on Friday picked former defense minister Shigeru Ishiba as leader, setting him up to become prime minister next week. The party leadership win is a ticket to the top job because the Liberal Democratic Party\u2019s ruling coalition currently controls the parliament. Considered a defense policy expert, Ishiba has proposed an Asian version [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":44006,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[461,12],"tags":[6728,7207,10000,11606,913,2825,12210,2959,9974,5572,4802,7968,1198,2627,3174,12209,5655,11560,2711,12524,5320,36,594],"class_list":["post-44004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-world-news","tag-alliance","tag-asian","tag-conservative","tag-democracy","tag-democratic","tag-democratic-party","tag-female","tag-japan","tag-leadership","tag-military","tag-nato","tag-nine","tag-parliament","tag-pm","tag-prime-minister","tag-sanae","tag-security","tag-shirgeru-ishiba","tag-taiwan","tag-ticket","tag-women","tag-world","tag-who"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44004"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44007,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44004\/revisions\/44007"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}