{"id":8145,"date":"2020-08-28T06:37:52","date_gmt":"2020-08-28T06:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/?p=8145"},"modified":"2020-08-28T06:37:54","modified_gmt":"2020-08-28T06:37:54","slug":"japans-prime-minister-shinzo-abe-to-resign-for-health-reasons-nhk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/2020\/08\/28\/japans-prime-minister-shinzo-abe-to-resign-for-health-reasons-nhk\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan&#8217;s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to resign for health reasons: NHK"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tokyo Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe intends to resign due to health issues<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to Japan&#8217;s public broadcaster NHK, citing sources close to Abe. A government aide told CNN he heard that Abe has conveyed his desire to resign. Abe had been expected to hold a press conference later on Friday to update on the coronavirus situation in Japan.On Monday morning, Abe visited Keio University Hospital in Tokyo for what was his second hospital visit in a week. Abe suffers from colitis, a non-curable inflammatory bowel disease, which forced him to resign during his first stint as the country&#8217;s leader from 2006 to 2007. He became Prime Minister again in 2012.Abe is Japan&#8217;s longest-serving head of government in terms of consecutive days in office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Agencies <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tokyo Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe intends to resign due to health issues According to Japan&#8217;s public broadcaster NHK, citing sources close to Abe. A government&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8146,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8145","post","has-post-thumbnail","category-international","category-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}