{"id":48103,"date":"2025-09-08T00:53:56","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T17:53:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hbbgroup.net\/who-are-the-contenders-to-succeed-ishiba-as-japans-leader\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T00:53:56","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T17:53:56","slug":"who-are-the-contenders-to-succeed-ishiba-as-japans-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hbbgroup.net\/vi\/who-are-the-contenders-to-succeed-ishiba-as-japans-leader\/","title":{"rendered":"Who are the contenders to succeed Ishiba as Japan&#8217;s leader?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><span><a href=\"http:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/politics\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Politics<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Sanae Takaichi and Shinjiro Koizumi made strong showings in last LDP race<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/__origami\/service\/image\/v2\/images\/raw\/https%3A%2F%2Fcms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com%2Fimages%2F7%2F4%2F3%2F5%2F11445347-2-eng-GB%2F648c0e42e18f-photo_SXM2025090700006136.jpg?width=780&#038;fit=cover&#038;gravity=faces&#038;dpr=2&#038;quality=medium&#038;source=nar-cms&#038;format=auto\" alt=\"20250907N Takaichi Koizumi Hayashi\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"><\/p>\n<p data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">From left, Sanae Takaichi, Shinjiro Koizumi and Yoshimasa Hayashi could run again for leadership of Japan&#8217;s Liberal Democratic Party.\u00a0(Source photos by Uichiro Kasai)<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>MIKI OKUYAMA<\/p>\n<div data-dark-mode=\"false\">\n<p><span>September 8, 2025 02:07 JST<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"article-body-preview\" data-article-body data-trackable=\"bodytext\" data-atlas=\"body\">\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\">TOKYO &#8212; With Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba poised to step down, attention now focuses on who will seek to lead the Liberal Democratic Party &#8212; and possibly Japan &#8212; in his place.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Politics Sanae Takaichi and Shinjiro Koizumi made strong showings in last LDP race From left, Sanae Takaichi, Shinjiro Koizumi and [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48104,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tin-tuc-the-gioi-vi"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hbbgroup.net\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hbbgroup.net\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hbbgroup.net\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hbbgroup.net\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hbbgroup.net\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hbbgroup.net\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hbbgroup.net\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hbbgroup.net\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hbbgroup.net\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hbbgroup.net\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}