Shinzō Abe

Shinzō Abe (安倍 晋三, Abe Shinzō?, ; born 21 September 1954) is the Prime Minister of Japan, in office since 2012.

President of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and chairman of the Oyagaku propulsion parliamentary group, Abe is the 90th Japanese Prime Minister, elected by a special session of the National Diet on 26 September 2006. He was then Japan's youngest post-World War II prime minister and the first born after the war. He served as prime minister for less than a year, resigning on 12 September 2007. He was replaced by Yasuo Fukuda, beginning a string of Prime Ministers who did not maintain the position for more than one year. On 26 September 2012, Abe defeated former Minister of Defense Shigeru Ishiba in a run-off vote to win the LDP presidential election.

Abe became the Prime Minister again following the LDP's landslide victory in the 2012 general election with a government on 26 December 2012.

Read more about Shinzō Abe:  Early Life, Member of House of Representatives, First Term As Prime Minister, Return As Prime Minister, See Also

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