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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.
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.
The state funeral of Shinzo Abe, former prime minister of Japan and serving member of the House of Representatives was assassinated on 8 July 2022, was held on 27 September 2022. The funeral, which took place at the Nippon Budokan venue in Chiyoda, Tokyo , was expected to be attended by roughly 4,300 people, including around 700 international ...
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.
President Biden joined politicians and leaders from around the world in expressing shock and outrage on Friday over the assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
Shinzo Abe, 67, Japan's longest-serving prime minister, died Friday after he was shot while delivering a speech at a campaign event in the city of Nara.
The prime minister of Japan is the country's head of government and the leader of the Cabinet. This is a list of prime ministers of Japan, from when the first Japanese prime minister (in the modern sense), Itō Hirobumi, took office in 1885, until the present day. 32 prime ministers under the Meiji Constitution had a mandate from the Emperor.
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 ...