page_title: Shinzo Abe
section_title: First term as prime minister (2006–2007)
hierarchical_section_title: Shinzo Abe / First term as prime minister (2006–2007)
caption_attribution_description: Shinzō Abe was inaugurated as Prime Minister on September 26, 2006.
context_page_description: Shinzo Abe is a Japanese politician who has served four terms as Prime Minister of Japan and President of the Liberal Democratic Party since 2012, and previously from 2006 to 2007. He also served as Chief Cabinet Secretary from 2005 to 2006 and was Leader of the Opposition in 2012. He is the longest-serving Prime Minister in Japanese history.
  Abe was elected to the House of Representatives in the 1993 election. He was appointed Chief Cabinet Secretary by Junichiro Koizumi in September 2005, before going on to replace Koizumi as LDP President in September 2006. He was subsequently confirmed as Prime Minister of Japan by a special session of the National Diet, becoming, aged 52, Japan's youngest post-war Prime Minister, and the first to have been born after World War II. Abe resigned as Prime Minister after one year in office, citing ulcerative colitis, shortly after his party lost that year's House of Councillors election. He was replaced by Yasuo Fukuda, the first in a series of five prime ministers who each failed to retain office for more than sixteen months.
context_section_description: On 14 July 2006, Abe was inaugurated as Japanese Prime Minister. Elected at age 52, he was the youngest prime minister since Fumimaro Konoe in 1941.
caption: Abe in 2006
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