Shinzo Abe, Japan’s longest-serving prime minister, was shot on Friday, July 8, while campaigning for a parliamentary election. Here are some things you should know about the former Japanese prime minister:
due to health reasons, local media reported on Friday, August 28.
Abe became prime minister twice – the first time from 2006 to 2007, with a return beginning in 2012. He is Japan’s longest-serving prime minister with almost 8 years in office. In December 2012, Abe made a comeback as his party won a resounding victory. He said he had since learned lessons from his previous short-lived term.
Despite his long hold on power, Abe has left some goals unfulfilled. He was unable to revise the pacifist Constitution installed by American occupiers post-war, nor iron out the Kuril Islands dispute – a decades-old territorial dispute with Russia.Philippines-Japan relations
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