Shinzo Abe, powerful former Japan PM, leaves divided legacy
The former leader, who was assassinated Friday, angered both liberals at home and World War II victims in Asia with his revisionist view of Japan’s history.
Tokyo | Shinzo Abe was a political blue blood groomed for power. Japan’s longest serving prime minister, he was also perhaps the most polarising, complex politician in recent Japanese history.
Abe, who was assassinated on Friday, angered liberals at home and World War II victims in Asia with his hawkish push to revamp the military and his revisionist view that Japan was given an unfair verdict by history for its brutal past.
AP
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