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Shinzo Abe

Shinzō Abe
MP
安倍 晋三
Shinzō Abe April 2015.jpg
Abe in 2015
57th & 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
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
Preceded by New Constituency
Constituency
Personal details
Born 安倍晋三 (Abe Shinzō?)
(1954-09-21) 21 September 1954 (age 62)
Tokyo, Japan
Nationality Japanese
Political party Liberal Democratic
Spouse(s) Akie Matsuzaki
Residence Kantei
Alma mater

Shinzō Abe (安倍 晋三 Abe Shinzō?, IPA: [abe ɕiɴzoː]; born 21 September 1954) is the current Prime Minister of Japan, re-elected to the position in December 2012, and is currently one of the longest serving PMs in Japanese history. He is also the President of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP).

Abe served for a year as Prime Minister, from 2006 to 2007. 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. Abe 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, in a run-off vote, to win the LDP Presidential Election. Following the LDP's landslide victory in the 2012 general election, Abe became the Prime Minister again. Abe is the first former Prime Minister to return to the office since Shigeru Yoshida in 1948. Abe was re-elected at the 2014 general election, retaining his two-thirds majority with coalition partner Komeito.


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