I have just been appointed to the office of Prime Minister.
Prime Minister of Japan from 2006–2007 and 2012–2020 (1954–2022)
Japan's longest-serving prime minister — nearly nine years across two separate terms — and the first former premier to return to office in six decades. Shot dead in 2022 while giving a campaign speech, the first assassination of a Japanese leader in eighty-six years.
Born in Tokyo in 1954 into a political dynasty — son of an LDP politician, grandson of a prime minister — Abe graduated from Seikei University, worked in industry, and entered the House of Representatives in 1993. He rose quickly: party secretary-general, Chief Cabinet Secretary under Koizumi, then prime minister in 2006 at age fifty-two, Japan's youngest post-war premier and the first born after the war. A staunch conservative, he pursued constitutional revision, initiated the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue to counter China, and resigned in 2007 amid unpopularity and illness. In 2012 he retu…
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I have just been appointed to the office of Prime Minister.
In conducting the affairs of State, I will first clarify my own political stance to the people of Japan and to the members of the Diet.
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