Japan’s prime minister has resigned due to health concerns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Japan.- Shinzo Abe, prime minister of Japan, has resigned due to health concerns. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
At a press conference in Tokyo, he said: \u201cEven though there is one year to go in my tenure and there are challenges to be met, I have decided to stand down as prime minister”. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
He also apologised to the Japanese people for being unable to fulfil his duties during the pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Abe\u2019s term of office was due to run until September next year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He revealed he has been struggling with a chronic disease of the digestive system for eight years. He had successfully controlled the illness until June, when a medical check-up revealed concerns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Abe’s government had strongly supported the project to introduce integrated resorts to Japan. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Japan\u2019s initiative to licence an initial three IRs nationally has faced a number of headwinds, with potential host cities and private partners still waiting for the national government to publish its basic policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Cities such as Yokohama<\/a><\/em><\/strong> and Osaka<\/a><\/em><\/strong> are interested in hosting an IR but have had to postpone projects until central government clarifies conditions for the developments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Japan’s prime minister has resigned due to health concerns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":9450,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[160,16338,154,158],"tags":[470,225],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9447"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9447"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9455,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9447\/revisions\/9455"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}