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6 Oct 2006, 3:09 am
[JURIST] New Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe [official profile, BBC profile] declared before parliament Friday that Japanese leaders during World War II were not war criminals. [read post]
12 Sep 2007, 2:05 am
[JURIST] Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe [official website, in Japanese; JURIST news archive] announced his resignation [BBC English translation] on Wednesday, citing problems renewing a Japanese anti-terrorism law. [read post]
3 May 2007, 4:13 am
[JURIST] Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe [official website; BBC profile] repeated his call for reforming the Japanese constitution [text] on Thursday, the day of the constitution's 60th anniversary. [read post]
26 Mar 2007, 10:38 am
[JURIST] Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe [official website, in Japanese; BBC profile] expressed his sympathy and apologized Monday for the "situation" faced by so-called Korean and Chinese "comfort women" [Amnesty backgrounder] who were forced into sexual slavery during World War II. [read post]
23 Nov 2014, 10:26 am by Dominic Yobbi
[JURIST] Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe [official profile] has dissolved the lower house of parliament [official website], enabling an early election to see how the public views his struggling economic policies. [read post]
27 Aug 2014, 6:46 am by Ernster the Virtual Library Cat
  The Report discusses Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s strategy to grow Japan’s economy and eliminate deflation. [read post]
1 Mar 2020, 8:00 am by Paul Caron
The Economist, Japan’s GDP Shrinks Dramatically After a Tax Rise and a Typhoon: Economists still argue about the merits of Abenomics, the experimental mix of policies introduced by Japan’s prime minister, Abe Shinzo, seven years ago, in an effort to chase away deflation and stagnation. [read post]
26 Sep 2018, 2:17 pm
Trump and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, affirmed the importance... [read post]
18 Jul 2016, 8:58 am by Tom Smith
Well, dozens of LDP legislators and ministers — including Japan’s prime minister, Shinzo Abe — are members of a radical nationalist organization called Nippon Kaigi, which believes (according to one of its members, Hakubun Shimomura, who until recently was Japan’s education minister) that Japan should abandon a “masochistic view of history” wherein it accepts that it committed crimes during the Second World War. [read post]
26 Dec 2013, 4:22 am by Howard Friedman
Today Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe angered China and South Korea by visiting the Yasukuni Shrine, a Shinto shrine to the war dead including Japanese leaders who were convicted as war criminals at the end of World War II. [read post]
20 May 2017, 6:18 pm by Miracle Jones
The cabinet of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe [official site] approved a special bill [Japan Times report] on Friday allowing the reigning Emperor Akihito [BBC profile] to abdicate his throne. [read post]
26 Oct 2018, 4:00 am by Howard Friedman
Kyodo News reports on a decision by a Japanese appellate court yesterday holding that a 2013 visit by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to the Yasukuni Shrine did not violate the religious freedom of the 450 citizens who brought the lawsuit. [read post]
10 Jun 2017, 1:00 pm by Ram Eachambadi
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe [official website] noted the importance of... [read post]
6 Jul 2017, 1:34 pm by Autumn Callan
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe [BBC profile] met with European Commission... [read post]
29 Sep 2006, 3:02 pm
[JURIST] In his first major speech to parliament since taking office last week, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe [official profile; BBC profile] followed through on a promise [IHT report] to make amending the country's pacifist constitution a priority. [read post]
7 Feb 2007, 11:08 pm
[JURIST] No formal peace treaty will be concluded between Japan and Russia until Russia relinquishes control of several Japanese islands it has occupied since the end of World War II, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe [official website] told a rally on Wednesday. [read post]