En man gripen för mordet på Shinzo Abe
Japans före detta premiärminister Shinzo Abe har dött av de skador han ådrog sig efter att ha skjutits under ett tal, rapporterar det japanska public service-bolaget NHK.
Han uppges ha träffats av två skott från ett hagelgevär, som enligt flera japanska medier ska ha varit hemmagjort.
En man greps på platsen och misstänks för mordförsök. Han ska ha uppgett för polis att han var missnöjd med Abe och hade för avsikt att mörda honom.
Abe är en av dem som innehaft den japanska premiärministerposten längst – mellan 2006 och 2007, och återigen mellan 2012 och 2020.
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Shinzo Abe
Wikipedia (en)
Shinzo Abe (安倍 晋三, Abe Shinzō, IPA: [abe ɕindzoː]; born 21 September 1954) was a Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan and President of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) from 2006 to 2007 and again from 2012 to 2020. He was the longest-serving prime minister in Japanese history. Abe also served as Chief Cabinet Secretary from 2005 to 2006 under Junichiro Koizumi and was briefly leader of the opposition in 2012.
Abe was elected to the House of Representatives in the 1993 election. He was appointed Chief Cabinet Secretary by Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi in September 2005, before replacing him as prime minister and LDP president in September 2006. He was subsequently confirmed as prime minister by a special session of the National Diet, becoming Japan's youngest post-war prime minister, and the first to have been born after World War II. Abe resigned as prime minister just after one year in office, due to medical complications from ulcerative colitis, shortly after his party lost that year's House of Councillors election. He was replaced by Yasuo Fukuda, who became the first in a series of five prime ministers who each failed to retain office for more than sixteen months.
After recovering from his illness, Abe staged an unexpected political comeback, defeating Shigeru Ishiba, the former defense minister, in a ballot to become LDP president for the second time in September 2012. Following the LDP's landslide victory in the general election that December, he became the first former prime minister to return to the office since Shigeru Yoshida in 1948. He led the LDP to two further landslides in the 2014 and 2017 elections, becoming Japan's longest-serving prime minister. In August 2020, Abe announced his second resignation as prime minister, citing a significant resurgence of his ulcerative colitis. He tendered his resignation on 16 September, upon the Diet electing Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga as his successor.Abe is a conservative whom political commentators have widely described as a right-wing Japanese nationalist. He is a member of Nippon Kaigi and holds negationist views on Japanese history, including denying the role of government coercion in the recruitment of comfort women during World War II, a position which has created tension with neighboring South Korea. He is considered a hard-liner with respect to North Korea, and advocates revising Article 9 of the pacifist Japanese constitution to permit Japan to maintain military forces. Abe's premiership was known internationally for his government's economic policies, nicknamed Abenomics, which pursued monetary easing, fiscal stimulus, and structural reforms. On July 8, 2022, Abe collapsed during a speech in Nara. NHK reported that he has been shot in the chest.
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