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Shinzo Abe, influential Japanese prime minister, 1954-2022
8 mins | Jul 18, 2022
He died after being shot during a campaign speech in western Japan at age 67. Shinzo Abe, Japan’s longest-serving prime minister, passed away on the 8th of July 2022. Leo Lewis and Kana Inagaki pay tribute to the blue-blooded political showman who sought to revive Japan and revise its pacifist constitution.
