Posted on Jul 10, 2022
Shinzo Abe's policies take on renewed significance for Japan
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Shinzo Abe was Japan's longest-serving and perhaps its most consequential prime minister in the post-war era.
Over the course of a political career spanning decades, Abe championed policies that have reshaped Japanese foreign and defense policy to this day.
Abe's assassination Friday during an event in the city of Nara has prompted the world to reflect on these policies and what they attempted and actually accomplished for Japan.
He pushed through an economic program dubbed "Abenomics" aimed at reviving Japan's moribund economy. It had limited success.
Abe proposed the idea for the Quad, a grouping of four like-minded countries in the Indo-Pacific to take on China's growing heft in the region, and tried to create an expanded role for the country's military.
Shinzo Abe was Japan's longest-serving and perhaps its most consequential prime minister in the post-war era.
Over the course of a political career spanning decades, Abe championed policies that have reshaped Japanese foreign and defense policy to this day.
Abe's assassination Friday during an event in the city of Nara has prompted the world to reflect on these policies and what they attempted and actually accomplished for Japan.
He pushed through an economic program dubbed "Abenomics" aimed at reviving Japan's moribund economy. It had limited success.
Abe proposed the idea for the Quad, a grouping of four like-minded countries in the Indo-Pacific to take on China's growing heft in the region, and tried to create an expanded role for the country's military.
Shinzo Abe's policies take on renewed significance for Japan
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In the 19 months lived in Japan, I never saw a gun outside of an American Post. This guy proved that when you can't get one, you build one. Shinzo Abe started out with a term that was inconsequential and then came along to be highly significant for Japan and us
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