Abe Shinzo’s policies will live on, but may be enacted more slowly
He saw the challenges posed to Japan by a turbulent world, and acted accordingly
Abe shinzo was killed at a crossroads. The former Japanese prime minister stood in the middle of an intersection just north of the train tracks in Nara, an ancient capital in the country’s west, where pedestrians and buses approach Yamato-Saidaiji station. He was partway through a stump speech for a candidate from the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (ldp), to which he belonged, early on July 8th when a man in a grey polo shirt approached from behind and fired a homemade gun.
This article appeared in the Asia section of the print edition under the headline “Staying the course”
Asia July 16th 2022
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