Kishida Fumio, Japan’s current prime minister, is likely to carry on down the path Abe Shinzo charted—but more cautiously
Save time by listening to our audio articles as you multitaskMr Abe had an ideological core. It was Abe the conservative nationalist who repelled his neighbours and polarised his country. Yet he also developed a studied pragmatism. This Abe was a realist who strengthened Japan’s defences and rallied allies.
Yet Mr Abe’s desire to bring his country out of the shadow of the second world war and back onto the global stage sometimes meant glossing over ugly parts of its history. He fought to purge textbooks of what he saw as a “masochistic” version of Japan’s colonial and wartime past. Those revisionist tendencies strained relations with South Korea, a former colony. Though Mr Abe, to his credit, did try to resolve long-standing historical disputes, he left office in 2020 with ties severely frayed.
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