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."Abe elected as new Japan premier", BBC News. Shinto Abe Inaugurated  as Japanese Prime Minister July 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."Embattled Japanese PM stepping down"CBC News. Retrieved 12 September 2007. "Japanese prime minister resigns"BBC News. Retrieved 12 September 2007.  The stated reason to end his term was missing support for Japan's mission in Afghanistan."Why Did Prime Minister Abe Shinzo Resign? Crippling Diarrhea" , JapanProbe.com, 12 January 2008. 

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.Japan ex-prime minister Abe taken to hospital after apparent shooting -NHK 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".Japan's former PM Shinzo Abe reportedly shot, is in heart failure

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.

References

Related pages
 Abenomask
 Abenomics

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