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Recently there was a shocking incident, in which Shinzo Abe was shot
during an election campaign. Who was Shinzo Abe? And what life did he

have?

Who was Shinzo Abe: history of the figure.

Shinzo Abe was born in 1954 as

the son of Shintaro Abe and Yoko
Kishi in an elite household that
produced many political figures.

The photograph next to this
paragraph is the old family picture

of the Abe family. And the child on
the woman’s lap is Abe. In 1993,
Abe joined The National Diet by

inheriting his father’s constituency.
After some years in 2006, Abe

became Japan’s youngest prime minister at 52. But a year later, he resigned because of his ulcerative
colitis and the diversion of the party. Abe returned to the political world in 2008 and succeed in
becoming prime minister in 2012. Abe enforced his economic policy named ‘Abenomics’ to encourage

the economy of Japan. Since Abe’s political character was conservative, and the relationship between
Korea and Japan was worse than ever. At the State of the Union Address, Abe talked about Dokdo
being Japan’s property and he also denied the Murayama Statement. Which is a statement from the 81st