Mourning the Real Abe Shinzō
Though the slain former Japanese prime minister belonged to the hawkish wing of his party, he was not the unbending nationalist conservative that many foreigners deemed him to be. His long tenure in office showed that he was serious about worker welfare, in addition to emphasizing national and regional security.
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TOKYO – At former Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzō’s funeral in July, the streets were lined with people carrying flowers. Even now, the shock of Abe’s assassination is still fresh. Whereas the United States loses thousands of lives every year to gun violence (owing to an absence of gun-safety laws), Japan’s annual toll of gun deaths tends to be in the single digits.