Shinzo Abe

**Shinzo Abe** (, _Abe Shinzō_, ; 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. He was a member of the far-right organization Nippon Kaigi.

On July 8, 2022, he was shot and killed in Nara while delivering a campaign speech for the upper house elections by a 41-year-old unemployed man, Tetsuya Yamagami.

## 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 after winning the LDP presidential election 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 Matsuzaki.

## 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 unemployed 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, news announced that he had died and the doctors said that he had died because of his blood loss and the bullet had gone in deep enough to enter his heart.

## Funeral

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.

## Related pages

- Abenomask
- Abenomics

## Infobox (officeholder)

- **name**: Shinzo Abe
- **native name lang**: ja
- **image**: Shinzō Abe 20200101.jpg
- **caption**: Official portrait, 2020
- **office**: Prime Minister of Japan
- **deputy**: Tarō Asō
- **term start**: 26 December 2012
- **term end**: 16 September 2020
- **predecessor**: Yoshihiko Noda
- **successor**: Yoshihide Suga
- **monarch1**: Akihito
- **term start1**: 26 September 2006
- **term end1**: 26 September 2007
- **predecessor1**: Junichiro Koizumi
- **successor1**: Yasuo Fukuda
- **office2**: Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)#Presidents of the Liberal Democratic Party, President of the Liberal Democratic Party
- **1namedata2**: Shigeru Ishiba
Sadakazu Tanigaki
Toshihiro Nikai
- **vicepresident2**: Masahiko Kōmura
- **term start2**: 26 September 2012
- **term end2**: 14 September 2020
- **predecessor2**: Sadakazu Tanigaki
- **successor2**: Yoshihide Suga
- **1blankname3**: Secretary-General
- **1namedata3**: Tsutomu Takebe
Hidenao Nakagawa
Tarō Asō
- **term start3**: 20 September 2006
- **term end3**: 26 September 2007
- **predecessor3**: Junichiro Koizumi
- **successor3**: Yasuo Fukuda
- **office5**: Chief Cabinet Secretary
- **primeminister5**: Junichiro Koizumi
- **term start5**: 31 October 2005
- **term end5**: 26 September 2006
- **predecessor5**: Hiroyuki Hosoda
- **successor5**: Yasuhisa Shiozaki
- **office6**: House of Representatives (Japan), Member of the House of Representatives
 from Yamaguchi Prefecture, Yamaguchi
- **constituency6**: Yamaguchi 4th district, 4th district
- **predecessor6**: _Constituency established_
- **successor6**: Shinji Yoshida
- **term start6**: 20 October 1996
- **term end6**: 8 July 2022
- **majority6**: 86,258 (58.40%)
- **constituency7**: Yamaguchi 1st district, 1st district
- **predecessor7**: _Constituency established_
- **successor7**: Masahiko Kōmura
- **term start7**: 18 July 1993
- **term end7**: 20 October 1996
- **birth place**: Tokyo, Japan
- **death place**: Kashihara, Nara, Kashihara, Nara Prefecture, Nara, Japan
- **death cause**: Gunshot wound
- **party**: Liberal Democratic Party (Japan), Liberal Democratic
- **father**: Shintaro Abe
- **mother**: Yoko Abe
- **relatives**: Nobusuke Kishi (grandfather)
Nobuo Kishi (brother)
- **residence**: Tokyo
- **signature**: Shinzō Abe signature.svg