The assassination of Shinzo Abe
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Shinzoabe: Is He a Prime Minister?
Ye shintoabe was an extremely successful political leader by the only measure that matters, which is winning elections. I think he won six elections in different types through his career was opposition to him. One of the things he did was, to some extent, to wake up and galvanize the old japanese left. Immediately after the second were war, the left was very strong in politics. Japan has communist party which wins seats in double figures at every election - although it has no chance forming a government. And for example, when sinzabe introduced changes to the laws governing japanese security policy,. that really created a new movement of opposition and protest that we hadn't seen for
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