Abe Shinzō
| Shinzō Abe | |
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| 安倍 晋三 | |
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| 57th and 63rd Prime Minister of Japan | |
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Assumed office 26 December 2012 |
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| Monarch | Akihito |
| Deputy | Tarō Asō |
| Preceded by | Yoshihiko Noda |
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In office 26 September 2006 – 26 September 2007 |
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| Monarch | Akihito |
| Preceded by | Junichirō Koizumi |
| Succeeded by | Yasuo Fukuda |
| President of the Liberal Democratic Party | |
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Assumed office 26 September 2012 |
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| Deputy | Masahiko Kōmura |
| Preceded by | Sadakazu Tanigaki |
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In office 20 September 2006 – 26 September 2007 |
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| Preceded by | Junichiro Koizumi |
| Succeeded by | Yasuo Fukuda |
| Leader of the Opposition | |
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In office 26 September 2012 – 26 December 2012 |
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| Prime Minister | Yoshihiko Noda |
| Preceded by | Sadakazu Tanigaki |
| Succeeded by | Banri Kaieda |
| Chief Cabinet Secretary | |
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In office 31 October 2005 – 26 September 2006 |
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| Prime Minister | Junichiro Koizumi |
| Preceded by | Hiroyuki Hosoda |
| Succeeded by | Yasuhisa Shiozaki |
| Member of the House of Representatives | |
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Assumed office 19 July 1993 |
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| Constituency |
Yamaguchi's At-large district (1993–1996) Yamaguchi 4th district (1996–present) |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
安倍晋三 (Abe Shinzō) 21 September 1954 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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