{"id":13968,"date":"2009-01-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-09T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fukuoka-now.comnews\/hiwatashi-reelected-as-takeo-mayor-2\/"},"modified":"2009-01-09T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-09T00:00:00","slug":"hiwatashi-reelected-as-takeo-mayor-2","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/hiwatashi-reelected-as-takeo-mayor-2\/","title":{"rendered":"<!--:en-->Hiwatashi Reelected as Takeo Mayor<!--:--><!--: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>Keisuke Hiwatashi was reelected as the mayor of Takeo, Saga Prefecture, in a special election held as a result of debate over privatizing the municipal hospital, which has aggregate debts of 630 million yen. The local doctors\u2019 association and some city council members opposed Mayor Hiwatashi\u2019s plan to sell the hospital to private interests in Kitakyushu and started a recall campaign. Mr. Hiwatashi thereupon resigned and ran again in a special election. He won with about 54% of the vote.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--:--><!--:ja--><!--:--><!--:ko--><!--:--><!--:zh--><!--:--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keisuke Hiwatashi was reelected as the mayor of Takeo, Saga Prefecture, in a special election held as a result of debate over privatizing the municipal hospital, which has aggregate debts of 630 million yen. The local doctors\u2019 association and some city council members opposed Mayor Hiwatashi\u2019s plan to sell the hospital to private interests in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-13968","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\/13968","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=13968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}