Shinzo Abe

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe appointed Motegi as Minister of International Trade and Industry in December 2012...

Even as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s Liberal Democratic Party took over from Yoshihiko Noda’s Democratic Party of Japan in December 2012 (see Who’s Who) Tokyo’s diplomats were already preparing the next instalment of the summit to be held in Yokohama on 1-3 June 2013...

Japan’s new leader Shinzo Abe wants to shape a more assertive role for his country in both the region and on the global stage...

The LDP’s Shinzo Abe returned to the post of Prime Minister in December after a brief stint as national leader in 2006-2007...

Koizumi enjoyed five and a half years in office but his successor Shinzo Abe held out for less than a year...

She was Minister of Defence under Prime Minister Shinzo Abe...

Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda leader of the LDP ended the Junichiro Koizumi-Shinzo Abe controversial tradition of visiting the Yasukuni war memorial and refrained from criticising China over poisonous food exports...

In August 2007 he was appointed Defence Minister but that lasted only a month; after Shinzo Abe’s surprise resignation from the Premiership in September incoming Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda returned Koumura to the Foreign Ministry...