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Shinzo Abe (/ ˈ ʃ ɪ n z oʊ ˈ ɑː b eɪ / SHIN-zoh AH-bay; Japanese: 安倍 晋三, Hepburn: Abe Shinzō, IPA: [abe ɕindzoː]; 21 September 1954 – 8 July 2022) was a Japanese politician who served as the prime minister of Japan and president of the Liberal Democratic Party from 2006 to 2007 and again from 2012 to 2020.
Abe in March 2022. Shinzo Abe had served as Prime Minister of Japan between 2006 and 2007 and again from 2012 to 2020, when he resigned due to health concerns. [17] He was the longest-serving prime minister in Japan's history.
As the Liberal Democratic Party controlled a majority in the National Diet as a member of the governing coalition, Suga successfully succeeded Abe as Prime Minister of Japan on 16 September 2020. His principal rival, Fumio Kishida , later succeeded him as prime minister after Suga's resignation in October 2021 .
Born into a prominent political family, Shinzo Abe, who was shot at a campaign event, holds the record as Japan's longest-serving prime minister. A timeline of former Japanese Prime Minister ...
UPDATE, 1.55 AM PT, July 8: Japanese broadcaster NHK is reporting former prime minister Shinzo Abe has died after being shot while giving a speech. He had been in critical condition for several ...
Shinzo Abe, 67, was shot from behind minutes after he started an election campaign speech Friday in Nara in western Japan and was pronounced dead later at hospital, NHK television reported.
In December 2012, she was appointed Vice Minister of Finance by the new Prime Minister Shinzō Abe, and on 3 September 2014, she was made Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry in Abe's cabinet. [4] As such, she became the minister responsible for the nuclear industry in Japan, with partial responsibility for the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear ...
Abe was a grandson of former prime minister Nobusuke Kishi and a grand-nephew of former prime minister Eisaku Satō. Hironobu Abe was born in 1952 in Tokyo to Shintaro Abe and Yoko Abe . After attending Seikei Elementary School, Seikei Junior and Senior High School, he entered the Faculty of Economics at Seikei University in 1971.