Shinzo Abe: Japan and Abe

shinzo abe: His reactionary vision for the future is caught in a pre-1945 time warp, drawing on the values that prevailed in Imperial Japan that are out of touch with contemporary Japan, according to The Japan Times. There is nothing beautiful or inspiring about his glowering ideological agenda. Suddenly Utsukushii Nihon e Toward a beautiful Japan escaped my lips, prompting my co-pilot to chide, So you are finally coming around to Abe's point of view Toward a Beautiful Country is the title of the book the current prime minister, Shinzo Abe, wrote in 2006 revised in 2013 so my choice of phrasing was deliberate, juxtaposing ethereal Japan with Abe's dark space. Like many other Japanese politicians, Abe's seat in the Diet, and political views, are inherited. Kishi had been released from jail in 1948, a Class A war crimes suspect, but in one of Japan's most remarkable political comebacks, less than a decade later he was leading Japan, head of a party that Japan's wartime adversary helped create. His father, Shintaro Abe, was foreign minister 1982-87 under one of Japan's most hawkish premiers, Yasuhiro Nakasone, and his grandfather was Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi 1957-1960 . Kishi took the reins of power in a backroom deal in the recently established Liberal Democratic Party following the merger of two conservative parties in 1955 that the CIA helped fund into the 1970s. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.