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Abe Shinzō

Shinzō Abe
安倍 晋三
Shinzō Abe at Hudson Institute (cropped).jpg
57th and 63rd Prime Minister of Japan
Assumed office
26 December 2012
Monarch Akihito
Deputy Tarō Asō
Preceded by Yoshihiko Noda
In office
26 September 2006 – 26 September 2007
Monarch Akihito
Preceded by Junichirō Koizumi
Succeeded by Yasuo Fukuda
President of the Liberal Democratic Party
Assumed office
26 September 2012
Deputy Masahiko Kōmura
Preceded by Sadakazu Tanigaki
In office
20 September 2006 – 26 September 2007
Preceded by Junichiro Koizumi
Succeeded by Yasuo Fukuda
Leader of the Opposition
In office
26 September 2012 – 26 December 2012
Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda
Preceded by Sadakazu Tanigaki
Succeeded by Banri Kaieda
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
Assumed office
19 July 1993
Constituency Yamaguchi's At-large district (1993–1996)
Yamaguchi 4th district (1996–present)
Personal details
Born 安倍晋三 (Abe Shinzō)
(1954-09-21) 21 September 1954 (age 62)
Tokyo, Japan
Political party Liberal Democratic
Spouse(s) Akie Matsuzaki
Residence Kantei
Alma mater Seikei University

Shinzō Abe (安倍 晋三, Abe Shinzō, IPA: [abe ɕiɴzoː]; born 21 September 1954) is the current Prime Minister of Japan and the President of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). He is the third longest serving Prime Minister of the post-war Japan.

Hailing from a politically prominent family, at age 52, Abe became Japan's youngest post-war prime minister, and the first to be born after World War II, when he was elected by a special session of the National Diet in September 2006. Abe resigned on 12 September 2007, for health reasons. He was replaced by Yasuo Fukuda, beginning a string of five prime ministers, none of whom retained office for more than sixteen months, before Abe staged a political comeback.

On 26 September 2012, Abe defeated former Minister of Defense Shigeru Ishiba for the LDP presidency. Following the LDP's landslide victory in the 2012 general election, he became the first former Prime Minister to return to the office since Shigeru Yoshida in 1948. He was re-elected for the third time at the 2014 general election, retaining his two-thirds majority with coalition partner Komeito.

Abe was born in Tokyo to a politically prominent family. His family is originally from Yamaguchi Prefecture, and Abe's registered residence ("honseki chi") is Nagato, Yamaguchi, where his grandfather was born. His grandfather, Kan Abe, and father, Shintaro Abe, were both politicians. Abe's mother, Yoko Kishi, is the daughter of Nobusuke Kishi, prime minister of Japan from 1957 to 1960. Kishi had been a member of the Tōjō Cabinet during the Second World War. Since GHQ's policy changed and became more anti-communist, Kishi was released from Sugamo Prison, and later established the Japan Democratic Party. In his book "Utsukushii Kuni e" ("Toward a Beautiful Country"), Abe wrote "Some people used to point to my grandfather as a 'Class-A war criminal suspect', and I felt strong repulsion. Because of that experience, I may have become emotionally attached to 'conservatism', on the contrary".


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