BREAKING NEWS: Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has died after being shot while giving a campaign speech, public broadcaster NHK reported.
— Japan’s former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has died after being shot during a campaign speech Friday in Nara, public broadcaster NHK reported, quoting sources within the ruling Liberal Democratic Party . He was 67.LDP — the first from 2006 to 2007, then again from 2012 until 2020. His second stint was the longest consecutive term for a Japanese head of government.
Abe was born on September 21, 1954, in Tokyo, to a prominent political family. Both his grandfather and great uncle served as prime minister, and his father was a former secretary general of the LDP. During that “unofficial” meeting in 2016, Trump’s first with any world leader, Abe hailed the US-Japan alliance and said he wanted to “build trust” with the new President. He strongly supported Trump’s initial hard line on North Korea, which matched Abe’s own hawkish tendencies.
It included three so-called arrows — massive monetary stimulus, increased government spending, and structural reforms.
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