Abe was shot on Friday while campaigning for a national election the government said, with public broadcaster NHK saying he appeared to have been shot from behind by a man with a shotgun.
A scandal-tainted minister in Abe’s cabinet committed suicide in May 2007, compounding problems for the Japanese leader whose support had slumped to its lowest level since he took office. Abe got a second chance at running the country in late 2012 after the conservative LDP surged to power, but he faced the challenge of bolstering a sagging economy while managing strained ties with China.
In the world’s worst nuclear calamity since Chernobyl in 1986, three reactors at Tepco’s Fukushima plant melted down after a magnitude 9 earthquake struck Japan in March 2011, triggering a tsunami that devastated a swathe of Japan’s northeastern coastline and killed more than 15 000 people. Fourteen Japanese wartime leaders convicted as war criminals by an Allied tribunal are honoured at the shrine along with other war dead. His visit angered China and South Korea and even provoked rare criticism from key ally the United States.
Abe won the 2014 election and brushed aside suggestions that a low turnout tarnished his coalition’s election win. Abe said the shift, the biggest change in Japan’s defence policy since the creation of its post-war military in 1954, was vital to meet new challenges such as from a rising China. Abe became the first foreign leader to meet Trump after the November 2016 election and made it a priority to keep the bilateral relationship strong.Abe’s repeated denials that he or his wife had made donations to the head of a Japanese nationalist school at the heart of a political scandal that chipped away at Abe’s support.
But that did not stop him from being re-elected prime minister in November 2017, after his Liberal Democratic Party-led coalition retained its two-thirds “super majority” . During a stop-over in Moscow on the way to Davos, Abe told Russian President Vladimir Putin that he planned to concentrate on a World War Two peace deal that could resolve a decades-old territorial dispute between the two states.Abe said on January 23, 2019 in Davos that he would seek to use his chairmanship of the Group of 20 leading economies to rebuild trust in the global trade system.
As a US ally that also has good diplomatic relations with Iran, Japan was considered in a unique position to mediate between the Islamic Republic and the United States, amid an escalating confrontation between the two.China-Japan ties have long been strained by territorial disputes over a group of tiny East China Sea islets and the legacy of Japan’s World War Two aggression.
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