https://sports.yahoo.com/shinzo-abe-only-confirmed-speaker-105313860.html
Shinzo Abe was only confirmed as speaker one day before event where he was killed, deepening questions around assassination
— ri, July 8, 2022, 5:53 AM·2 min read-/
https://sports.yahoo.com/shinzo-abe-only-confirmed-speaker-105313860.html
Shinzo Abe was only confirmed as speaker one day before event where he was killed, deepening questions around assassination
— ri, July 8, 2022, 5:53 AM·2 min read-/
interesting anon’s thoughts on Abe
https://www.mofa.go.jp/na/na1/us/page4e_000103.html
—from July 2014–
Courtesy Call on Prime Minister Shinzo Abe by Mr. Leo Melamed, Chairman Emeritus, Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) Group
Inside job or mole
https://www.kcra.com/amp/article/japan-former-prime-minister-shinzo-abe-shot/40550797
DS didn’t like Ae or his latest nationalist campaign.
He was another Trump causing trouble within the masses
When he resigned as prime minister, Abe said he had a recurrence of the ulcerative colitis he'd had since he was a teenager.
He told reporters at the time that it was “gut wrenching” to leave many of his goals unfinished. He spoke of his failure to resolve the issue of Japanese abducted years ago by North Korea, a territorial dispute with Russia and a revision of Japan’s war-renouncing constitution.
That last goal was a big reason he was such a divisive figure.
His ultra-nationalism riled the Koreas and China, and his push to create what he saw as a more normal defense posture angered many Japanese. Abe failed to achieve his cherished goal of formally rewriting the U.S.-drafted pacifist constitution because of poor public support.
Loyalists said that his legacy was a stronger U.S.-Japan relationship that was meant to bolster Japan’s defense capability. But Abe made enemies by forcing his defense goals and other contentious issues through parliament, despite strong public opposition.
Abe was a political blue blood who was groomed to follow in the footsteps of his grandfather, former Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi. His political rhetoric often focused on making Japan a “normal” and “beautiful” nation with a stronger military and bigger role in international affairs.
Many foreign officials expressed shock over the shooting.
Abe said he was proud of working while leader for a stronger Japan-U.S. security alliance and shepherding the first visit by a serving U.S. president to the atom-bombed city of Hiroshima. He also helped Tokyo gain the right to host the 2020 Olympics by pledging that a disaster at the Fukushima nuclear plant was “under control” when it was not