{"id":1610,"date":"2021-10-14T06:26:59","date_gmt":"2021-10-14T06:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/?p=1610"},"modified":"2021-10-14T06:27:02","modified_gmt":"2021-10-14T06:27:02","slug":"japans-premier-dissolves-parliament-for-general-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/asia\/japans-premier-dissolves-parliament-for-general-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan\u2019s premier dissolves parliament for general election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By Asia Free Press report<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>TOKYO (AFP) &#8211; Japan\u2019s new Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Thursday dissolved the parliament for a general election that will be later this month, local media reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new premier seeks a public mandate for his government launched just last week, according to Kyodo News Agency.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The election is scheduled to be held on Oct. 31 as the term of lower house members expires on Oct. 21.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Liberal Democratic Party headed by Kishida is hoping to capitalize on a recent lull in COVID-19 cases, while opposition leaders are still scrambling to create a united front, the agency reported.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is the first time in Japan&#8217;s postwar history that a general election will be held after the term has expired, and the period between the dissolution of the lower house and voting day will be the shortest.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Asia Free Press report TOKYO (AFP) &#8211; Japan\u2019s new Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Thursday dissolved the parliament for a general election that will be later this month, local media reported. The new premier seeks a public mandate for his government launched just last week, according to Kyodo News Agency.&nbsp; The election is scheduled [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":1611,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,396],"tags":[784,128,783],"class_list":["post-1610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia","category-latest","tag-dissolve","tag-japan","tag-parliament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1610"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}