Shinzo Abe: Prime Minister of Japan from 2006–2007 and 2012–2020 (1954-2022)
Shinzo Abe (安倍 晋三, Abe Shinzō, pronounced ; 21 September 1954 – 8 July 2022) was a Japanese politician.
He was the Prime Minister of Japan from 2006 to 2007 and again from 2012 to 2020. Abe had been a member of the House of Representatives from 1996 until his assassination in 2022. He was a member of the Liberal Democratic Party and was the party's president twice during his time as prime minister. Between 2005 and 2006, he was the Chief Cabinet Secretary in the Junichiro Koizumi government.
Shinzo Abe | |
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安倍 晋三 | |
 Official portrait, 2020 | |
| Prime Minister of Japan | |
| In office 26 December 2012 – 16 September 2020 | |
| Monarch | |
| Deputy | Tarō Asō |
| Preceded by | Yoshihiko Noda |
| Succeeded by | Yoshihide Suga |
| In office 26 September 2006 – 26 September 2007 | |
| Monarch | Akihito |
| Preceded by | Junichiro Koizumi |
| Succeeded by | Yasuo Fukuda |
| President of the Liberal Democratic Party | |
| In office 26 September 2012 – 14 September 2020 | |
| Vice President | Masahiko Kōmura |
| Secretary-General | Shigeru Ishiba Sadakazu Tanigaki Toshihiro Nikai |
| Preceded by | Sadakazu Tanigaki |
| Succeeded by | Yoshihide Suga |
| In office 20 September 2006 – 26 September 2007 | |
| Secretary-General | Tsutomu Takebe Hidenao Nakagawa Tarō Asō |
| Preceded by | Junichiro Koizumi |
| Succeeded by | Yasuo Fukuda |
| Chief Cabinet Secretary | |
| In office 31 October 2005 – 26 September 2006 | |
| Prime Minister | Junichiro Koizumi |
| Preceded by | Hiroyuki Hosoda |
| Succeeded by | Yasuhisa Shiozaki |
| Member of the House of Representatives from Yamaguchi | |
| In office 20 October 1996 – 8 July 2022 | |
| Preceded by | Constituency established |
| Succeeded by | Shinji Yoshida |
| Constituency | 4th district |
| Majority | 86,258 (58.40%) |
| In office 18 July 1993 – 20 October 1996 | |
| Preceded by | Constituency established |
| Succeeded by | Masahiko Kōmura |
| Constituency | 1st district |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 安倍晋三 (Abe Shinzō) 21 September 1954 Tokyo, Japan |
| Died | 8 July 2022 (aged 67) Kashihara, Nara, Japan |
| Cause of death | Murder by firearm |
| Political party | Liberal Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Akie Abe (m. 1987) |
| Mother | Yoko Abe |
| Father | Shintaro Abe |
| Relatives | Nobusuke Kishi (grandfather) Nobuo Kishi (brother) |
| Residence | Tokyo |
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Prime Minister
He was the 90th Prime Minister of Japan following Junichiro Koizumi in 2006. He was elected at age 52, becoming the youngest post-war prime minister in Japan's history. However, he stepped down on 12 September 2007 after a year. The stated reason to end his term was missing support for Japan's mission in Afghanistan.
In 2012 he again became party leader and his party went on to win the election in December 2012 by a wide margin. This brought him back to power as Prime Minister. In 2019, he became the longest serving Prime Minister in Japan. His economic policies were known as Abenomics.
On 28 August 2020, Abe announced his plans to resign as Prime Minister because of his bad health with ulcerative colitis. He was replaced by Yoshihide Suga on 16 September 2020.
Personal life
He was born in Shinjuku, Tokyo, but his constituency is in Yamaguchi Prefecture. It was inherited from his father Shintaro Abe who was a Foreign Minister. His grandfather was imprisoned and suspected war criminal Nobusuke Kishi who later became Prime Minister. His brother Nobuo Kishi became Minister of Defense in 2020. In 1987, Abe married Akie Abe.
Death
On 8 July 2022, Abe was shot from behind in the neck and chest while he was giving a speech in Nara, Japan. The shooter was Tetsuya Yamagami, a 41-year-old man from Nara. Abe collapsed on stage while bleeding and went into cardiopulmonary arrest. He was quickly hospitalized afterwards with heart failure and had no "vital signs".
At 5:03 pm JST Abe's death was announced. The doctors said that he had died because he had lost too much blood and the bullet had gone in deep enough to enter his heart.
A small private funeral was held on 12 July. A state funeral was held on 27 September at the Nippon Budokan.
This was the first assassination of a former Japanese prime minister since 1936.
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