{"id":5850,"date":"2025-08-27T08:07:16","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T08:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/shinji-ishimaru-ex-mayor-of-akitakata-steps-down-as-leader-of-political-group\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T08:07:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T08:07:16","slug":"shinji-ishimaru-ex-mayor-of-akitakata-steps-down-as-leader-of-political-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/shinji-ishimaru-ex-mayor-of-akitakata-steps-down-as-leader-of-political-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Shinji Ishimaru, ex-mayor of Akitakata, steps down as leader of political group"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Shinji Ishimaru, head of The Path to Rebirth, said Wednesday that he will step down as leader of the Japanese political group.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at a news conference in Tokyo, Ishimaru said his successor will be announced on Sept. 16 after a leadership election. He also said that he will leave the group.<\/p>\n<p>Ishimaru said he wants to continue being involved in politics in some way, adding that he may seek to run for office as a candidate for The Path to Rebirth in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Ishimaru, a former mayor of Akitakata, Hiroshima Prefecture, was the runner-up in last year&rsquo;s Tokyo gubernatorial election. He launched The Path to Rebirth in January and became its leader.<\/p>\n<p>The group fielded candidates for elections for the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly and the House of Councilors, the upper chamber of the country&rsquo;s parliament, earlier this year, but none were successful.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub>Shinji Ishimaru, ex-mayor of Akitakata, steps down as leader of political group<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shinji Ishimaru, head of The Path to Rebirth, said Wednesday that he will step down as leader of the Japanese political group. Speaking at a news conference in Tokyo, Ishimaru said his successor will be announced on Sept. 16 after a leadership election. He also said that he will leave the group. Ishimaru said he&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/shinji-ishimaru-ex-mayor-of-akitakata-steps-down-as-leader-of-political-group\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Shinji Ishimaru, ex-mayor of Akitakata, steps down as leader of political group&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5851,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}