relations death_date death_place years_active birth_place nationality birth_date spouse article_title name occupation
shintarō -rrb- abe -lrb- son -rrb- shinzō abe -lrb- grandson 30 january 1946 tokyo , japan 1928 to 1946 nagato , empire of japan japanese april 29 , 1894 yoko kishi kan abe
 kan abe 安倍 寛 politician
kan abe

born into a family of brewers of soy sauce and sake who were landlords in the area of heki , yamaguchi -lrb- now part of the city of nagato -rrb- in yamaguchi prefecture , he graduated from tokyo imperial university , the predecessor of the university of tokyo .
abe stood as a seiyukai party candidate in the february 1928 general election but lost ; he was appointed village mayor of heki in 1933 and later served in the yamaguchi prefectural assembly .
he was elected to the house of representatives as an independent candidate in the february 1937 general election .
he earned the nickname `` new shōin '' or `` shōwa shōin '' in honor of the earlier leader from yamaguchi , yoshida shōin .
in the 1942 general election , he ran on a platform opposing the militarist government under hideki tojo , which had by this time taken away most powers from the diet .
the tojo cabinet had attempted to block antiwar candidates from running through a registration system , notwithstanding which abe won a diet seat , which he used for an attempt to oust tojo and end world war ii .
abe was assisted in this effort by takeo miki , who became prime minister after the war .
abe died in january 1946 while preparing to run in the first postwar general election .
