Who was Shinzo Abe?
A: Shinzo Abe was a Japanese politician.
He was the longest serving what in Japanese history?
A: Prime Minister.
Abe was born into a prominent political family in Tokyo
and was the grandson of whom?
A: Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi.
What university did Abe graduate from?
A: Seikei University.
When was Abe elected to the House of Representatives?
A: In the 1993 election.
In 2005, Abe was appointed what?
A: Chief Cabinet Secretary by Koizumi.
Confirmed by the National Diet, Abe became
Japan's
what?
A: Youngest post-war prime minister and the first born after World War II.
Abe resigned as prime minister after one year due to
what?
A: Ulcerative colitis and his party's recent losses.
After recovering, Abe staged an unexpected what?
A: Political comeback by defeating Shigeru Ishiba, the former defense
minister, to become LDP president in 2012.
In 2020, Abe resigned as prime minister, citing what?
A: A relapse of his colitis, and was succeeded by Yoshihide Suga.
Abe was a staunch conservative whom political
commentators had described as what?
A: A right-wing Japanese nationalist.
Associated with the Nippon Kaigi, he held negationist
views on Japanese history, including denying what?
A: The role of government coercion in the recruitment of comfort women
during World War II.
Abe was also considered a hard-liner with respect to
Japan's what?
A: Military policies.
He enacted military reforms in 2015 that allowed Japan
to do what?
A: To exercise collective security and JSDF deployments overseas, the
passage of which was controversial and met with protests.
Economically, Abe's premiership was known for his
attempts to counter what?
A: Japan's economic stagnation, nicknamed "Abenomics", with mixed results.
On 8 July 2022, Abe was assassinated by a former Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force sailor while delivering a campaign speech in Nara ahead of the 10 July election.
When was Shinzo Abe born?
A: On 21 September 1954.
As a boy Abe aspired to become a what?
A: A filmmaker.
Abe's family history led him upon a what?
A: A political path.
Abe's paternal grandfather Kan Abe was a Yamaguchi
landowner who served in what?
A: The House of Representatives during World War II.
From 1978 to 1979, Abe attended what university?
A: The University of Southern California where he studied English as a
visiting student.
In April 1979, Abe began working for who?
A: Kobe Steel.
Abe worked as a secretary for his father who visited
how many countries in the 1980s?
A: 81.
These travels imparted on Abe the importance of doing
what?
A: Building relations with foreign leaders.
In 2000, Abe's home and the office of his supporters in
Shimonoseki, in Yamaguchi Prefecture, were attacked with what on numerous
occasions?
A: Molotov cocktails.
What happened to Abe on 8 July 2022?
A: Abe was assassinated by a former Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force sailor
while delivering a campaign speech in Nara ahead of the 10 July election.
The suspect purportedly targeted Abe because of what?
A: The latter's ties with the Unification Church.