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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks to The Economist at Japan Summit 2014

April 17, 2014

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Shinzo Abe

Prime minister

Shinzo Abe currently serves as prime minister of Japan. After a stint at Kobe Steel, he was secretary for his father, Shintaro Abe, who was at the time minister for foreign affairs. Mr Abe was first elected as a member of the House of Representatives in 1993, and has so far won the elections seven times. He worked as deputy chief cabinet secretary under both the Mori and the Koizumi administrations. After heading the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) as the party’s secretary-general, he was appointed chief cabinet secretary in 2005 by Junichiro Koizumi. He served as prime minister in 2006–07. He was elected president of the LDP, and then prime minister, in 2012. Mr Abe graduated from Seikei University.

内閣総理大臣

安倍晋三

安倍晋三氏は成蹊大学を卒業後、神戸製鋼所を経て父・安倍晋太郎外相の秘書官に就任。1993年に衆議院議員として初当選以来、当選7回。2000年以降、森、小泉内閣で官房副長官を務め、自由民主党幹事長を経て2005年、小泉内閣の官房長官に任命される。2006~07年にかけて内閣総理大臣。2012年に自民党総裁となり、内閣総理大臣に再任され、現在に至る。

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