{"id":8242,"date":"2010-04-27T13:21:01","date_gmt":"2010-04-27T04:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=8242"},"modified":"2010-04-27T13:21:01","modified_gmt":"2010-04-27T04:21:01","slug":"the-president-of-japan-liberal-democratic-partyldp-begins-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/the-president-of-japan-liberal-democratic-partyldp-begins-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"The President Of Japan Liberal Democratic Party(LDP) Begins Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tanigaki-s.net\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/sadakazu-tanigaki-400x371.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"sadakazu-tanigaki\" width=\"400\" height=\"371\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8246\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/Tanigaki_S\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/twitter-tanigaki-top-400x288.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"twitter-tanigaki-top\" width=\"400\" height=\"288\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8243\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nSadakazu Tanigaki  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tanigaki-s.net\/\">(official site)<\/a> [J], the president of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jimin.jp\/jimin\/english\/index.html\">Liberal Democratic Party(LDP)<\/a>, which is a political party who had dominated Japanese politics for half an century since the mid-1950s and got debacle at last national election against <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dpj.or.jp\/english\/\">Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ)<\/a>, started Twitter (<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/Tanigaki_S\">@Tanigaki_S<\/a>), with taking back his former remarks that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asahi.com\/politics\/update\/0107\/TKY201001070363.html\">he would never use Twitter<\/a> in January. [J]<br \/>\nSo far, he tweeted 12 messages in four days, most of which are long, close to 140 limit, with no replies(@). He quickly got about 30,000 followers but only follows 44, most of them are LDP represents.<br \/>\nBut <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/Tanigaki_S\/status\/12548969910\">one tweet<\/a> [J] is to thank to suggestions to follow his opponent DPJ&#8217;s head prime minister Yukio Hatoyama (<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/hatoyamayukio\">@hatoyamayukio<\/a>, and he followed Hatoyama&#8217;s account. @hatoyamayukio has about 540,000 followers, which is ranked 2nd in Japanese only behind everyone&#8217;s hero <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/GachapinBlog\">@Gachapin<\/a>.<br \/>\nAs <a href=\"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/01\/real-pm-hatoyama-finally-speaks-on-twitter\/\">we reported on the beginning of this year<\/a>, LDP&#8217;s head, Japan&#8217;s prime minister has been tweeting for 4 months now. We may see tweet-to-tweet debates between two big party leaders soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sadakazu Tanigaki (official site) [J], the president of Liberal Democratic Party(LDP), which is a political party who had dominated Japanese politics for half an century since the mid-1950s and got debacle at last national election against Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), started Twitter (@Tanigaki_S), with taking back his former remarks that he would never use&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/the-president-of-japan-liberal-democratic-partyldp-begins-twitter\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The President Of Japan Liberal Democratic Party(LDP) Begins Twitter<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17,27],"tags":[881,977,1300,2062,2082,2915,2958,3181,3856,4232],"class_list":["post-8242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","category-person","tag-democratic-party-of-japan","tag-dpj","tag-gachapin","tag-ldp","tag-liberal-democratic-party","tag-politician","tag-prime-minister","tag-sadakazu-tanigaki","tag-twitter","tag-yukio-hatoyama","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}