{"id":13136,"date":"2010-09-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-02T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fukuoka-now.comnews\/akune-city-council-convenes-as-dispute-with-mayor-continues-2\/"},"modified":"2010-09-02T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-02T00:00:00","slug":"akune-city-council-convenes-as-dispute-with-mayor-continues-2","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/akune-city-council-convenes-as-dispute-with-mayor-continues-2\/","title":{"rendered":"<!--:en-->Akune City Council Convenes as Dispute with Mayor Continues <!--:--><!--:ja-->Sorry, but we are not able to display what you have requested.<!--:--><!--:ko-->Sorry, but we are not able to display what you have requested.<!--:--><!--:zh-->Sorry, but we are not able to display what you have requested.<!--:-->"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--:en--><\/p>\n<div id=\"body\">\n<div id=\"img_area\">\n<div id=\"img\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Mayor Takehara Shinichi of Akune, Kagoshima Prefecture, is embroiled in a long-running dispute with City Council over city governance issues. Chief among them is his decision to shift from a salary system to a per diem system for the payment of council members, which will reduce their income by 90%. He has ruled by executive order since then, saying that the council is a waste of time. The mayor convened the first meeting in four months for a special two-day session. Though a majority of the council is opposed to the mayor, they earlier voted against a no-confidence motion because that would require a special election, and it is generally assumed the citizens would back the mayor because of his cost-cutting measures. Recently, however, a citizens\u2019 group has collected the required number of signatures to hold a recall election.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--:--><!--:ja--><!--:--><!--:ko--><!--:--><!--:zh--><!--:--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mayor Takehara Shinichi of Akune, Kagoshima Prefecture, is embroiled in a long-running dispute with City Council over city governance issues. Chief among them is his decision to shift from a salary system to a per diem system for the payment of council members, which will reduce their income by 90%. He has ruled by executive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-13136","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/13136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}