{"id":20332,"date":"2025-09-16T18:08:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T18:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/20332\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T18:08:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T18:08:13","slug":"japan-reformer-koizumi-joins-leadership-race-yen-strengthens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/20332\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan Reformer Koizumi Joins Leadership Race; Yen Strengthens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Japan\u2019s Agriculture Minister Shinjiro Koizumi, a reform proponent, says he will run in the ruling party leadership race as the Liberal Democratic Party looks for a successor capable of turning around its prospects and leading the nation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s true that I told my supporters of my intentions,\u201d Koizumi told reporters at his regular press conference on Tuesday, referring to a meeting at the weekend at which he informed local party supporters of his plans to enter the leadership election. \u201cI will put together my campaign step by step as I head toward a formal declaration.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Japan\u2019s Agriculture Minister Shinjiro Koizumi, a reform proponent, says he will run in the ruling party leadership race&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20333,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[4386,15812,114,11863,5603,184,85,4486,46,1437,19340,19342,238,1876,19341,19343],"class_list":["post-20332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-agriculture","tag-bank-of-japan-the","tag-business","tag-democratic-party","tag-economics","tag-economy","tag-il","tag-interest-rates","tag-israel","tag-japan","tag-japanese-yen-spot","tag-liberal","tag-politics","tag-shigeru-ishiba","tag-shinjiro-koizumi","tag-takayuki-kobayashi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}