The Abe Legacy: A Compendium

[thomas]

The Asia-Pacific Journal published a comprehensive compendium of ten articles dealing with former PM Abe's legacy. Very interesting read!

Table of Content

1. 'Abe Shinzo: Contentious Candidate for a State Funeral', Gavan McCormack
2. 'Washington's Man in Japan', Koichi Nakano
3. 'Abe and the Revival of Shinto Nationalism', Mark R. Mullins
4. 'Abe and Russia: A Legacy of Failure', James D. J. Brown
5. 'The Stumbling Statesman', Jeff Kingston
6. 'Abe Left Japan's Economy Worse Than He Found It', Richard Katz
7. 'Abe's Historical Revisionism', Sven Saaler
8. 'No Friend of the Free Media', David McNeill and Kaori Hayashi
9. 'Abe and the Unification Church: Opposing Gender Equality and LGBTQ+ Rights', Tomomi Yamaguchi
10. 'He's Not the Emperor', Alexis Dudden

The Abe Legacy: A Compendium

Abstract: On 8 July, Abe Shinzō was assassinated during a political rally in Nara. He was Japan’s prime minister twice, first in 2006–2007 and then again from 2012 to 2020, when he resigned am

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