Shinzo Abe

Shinzo Abe is president of the Liberal Democratic Party and was elected prime minister of Japan in December 2012. He also served as prime minister in 2006 after being elected by a special session of Japan’s National Diet, but resigned after less than a year.

Japan's leaders are fanning the flames of war-time enmity

21 May 2013

The sensitivities of East Asian history require that Japan be ever-mindful of its militaristic past. Yet Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's government appears intent on doing otherwise.

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Japan PM says shrine visits 'natural'

18 May 2013

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe defended in an interview on Friday the right of Japan’s leaders to visit a controversial shrine to war dead but hit back at critics who accuse him of revisionism.

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After a stellar start, Japan's 'Abenomics' faces dim future

17 May 2013

In the six months since Shinzo Abe emerged as the likely winner of last December's election, Japan's Nikkei 225 stock index has soared by 74 per cent, easily beating the rest of the world's major...

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Talking points

17 May 2013

Under-fire Abe gives keynote speech

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Japan PM Shinzo Abe says may meet with North Korea leader

15 May 2013

Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Wednesday he may meet North Korean leader Kim Jong-un if it could help resolve the longstanding issue of Pyongyang’s kidnapping of Japanese citizens.

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Park's decision to visit China to be seen as snub by Japan

15 May 2013

There has been no official comment from the Japanese government about the decision by Park Geun-hye, the new South Korean president, to make China her first diplomatic port of call in Asia.

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Opinion

Worrying economic parallels between China and India

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Howard Winn

Elsie Leung caught up in Rusal's byzantine politics

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Abenomics may just work for Japan

When the Liberal Democratic Party returned to power in Japan in December last year, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe vowed to restore growth and inflation through what is now known as Abenomics. This...

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Japan admits war sex slavery investigation 'limited'

Japan has acknowledged that it conducted only a limited investigation before claiming there was no official evidence that its imperial troops coerced Asian women into sexual slavery before and...

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Japanese PM Shinzo Abe helps big firms but fails to tackle structural problems

Abenomics, as the radical economic policies of Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe have inevitably been dubbed, has delighted the country's big industrial and financial players.

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China baulks at 'long live emperor' chant by Japan's Abe

Tenno heika banzai, or “long live the emperor”, was commonly chanted by Japanese soldiers in the second world war, said CCTV, adding that it is “extremely unusual” for a top government official to...

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Russia, Japan vow new push to end islands dispute

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe pledged on Monday to renew efforts to find a solution to a decades-long territorial row that has prevented the two sides...

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Japan factory output seen up for 4th straight month, recovery slow

Japan’s industrial production is expected to have risen for a fourth consecutive month in March albeit at a modest pace, a Reuters survey showed, in a sign that factory output is recovering slowly...

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