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Japanese PM says new cabinet members must ‘review’ ties with Unification Church

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TOKYO: Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will reshuffle his cabinet on Wednesday (August 10) paying attention to politicians’ ties to the Unification Church, seeking to steer his administration away from the controversial group and reverse a fall in opinion polls. The reshuffle comes as Kishida’s administration faces falling support rates. Public scrutiny of the group’s …

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Explained: Anti-Japanese sentiment in China

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Anti-Japanese sentiment is not a new phenomenon in China. The recent assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has highlighted the persistence of anti-Japanese sentiment in China. As world leaders expressed shock and regret at the former prime minister’s assassination, Chinese social media users expressed joy and celebrated Abe’s death. Some restaurants in China …

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Pursuing Shinzo Abe’s Strategy for a Free and Open Indo-Pacific

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On the evening of August 2, a plane carrying Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, and a delegation from the United States Congress landed in Taipei, Taiwan. Shortly after, they released a statement. Reading this statement, I could not help but think that the strategy first outlined by the late Shinzo …

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Shinzo Abe gets hard on Taiwan support and Japan should pay attention

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~~ ~ Taiwan is rapidly gaining prominence in Japan’s political ecosystem, as Taipei looms larger in Tokyo’s foreign security policy and strategy for East Asia. This was brought to light when former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe remarked that “any emergency regarding Taiwan would also mean an emergency for Tokyo”. The declaration of December 14, 2021 …

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The Legacy of Shinzo Abe

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It has been more than a year since Shinzo Abe, Japan’s longest-serving prime minister, resigned due to illness. His successor, Yoshihide Suga, has come and gone. But the institutional innovations spearheaded by Abe, namely the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) and the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, or Quad, look likely to shape Asia’s …

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INTERVIEW | Shinzo Abe: ‘No country will fight alongside a defenseless Japan’

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“Japan is no stranger to this military conflict,” former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said in a March 25 interview with The Sankei Shimbun. The leader of the largest faction of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) was discussing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Japan’s geopolitical situation shares commonalities with that of Ukraine, he explained. He went further …

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Tobias Harris on Abe Shinzo’s continued influence in Japan – The Diplomat

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Advertising In August 2020, Prime Minister Abe Shinzo made the shock announcement that he was stepping down due to health reasons. At the time, Abe had just set the record for Japan’s longest-serving prime minister, breaking a string of one-year terms (including his first term, from 2006 to 2007). We are now 18 months – …

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