Shinzo Abe
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Shinzō Abe MP |
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| 安倍 晋三 | |
Abe in 2015
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| 57th & 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 |
| 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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| Preceded by | New Constituency |
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| Personal details | |
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安倍晋三 (Abe Shinzō?) 21 September 1954 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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