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.
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