Shinzo Abe, the longest-serving prime minister of Japan, who sought to revive the country as an economic and military power to confront China’s rising influence, died July 8 after being shot by a gunman.
Mr. Abe was raised as Japan was on its stunning economic trajectory after World War II, on its way to the heady Japan Inc. powerhouse years of the 1980s. At an early age, Mr. Abe appeared to be being groomed to take his place in the center-right LDP.He studied political science at Seikei University in Tokyo, graduating in 1977, and then spent a year at the University of Southern California to study political science and get a firsthand look at U.S. culture and sensibilities.in April 2015, Mr.
He returned to Japan for a position at Kobe Steel as it was expanding its international connections. In 1987, he married Akie Matsuzaki, the daughter of a former president of the confectionary giant Morinaga. The couple never had children. In 1982. Mr. Abe served as executive assistant to his father, who was then foreign minister. He was first elected as a member of the Diet, Japan’s parliament, in 1993 for the southwestern prefecture of Yamaguchi. He smashed open a barrel of sake to celebrate.He steadily rose through the LDP ranks to become its leader in 2005, putting him in line as a potential prime minister. That came in September 2006. It gave Mr.
Mr. Abe appeared to be at the apex of his political rise, but upheavals in his government — including allegations of doling out illegal farm subsidies — soon stole the limelight. The subsidies probe apparently led to the suicide of Mr. Abe’s agriculture minister,. Mr. Abe stepped down after just one year, citing medical issues and sending his party into disarray. It took five years for him to get back to the prime minister office.
Mr. Abe’s style was workmanlike — with occasional flashes of wry humor — and his inner circle was built mostly around technocrats and loyalists. In a relative sense, Mr. Abe’s leadership was designed for low drama to avoid the missteps of his first time as leader.
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