Shintaro Abe

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In this Japanese name, the surname is Abe.
Shintaro Abe
安倍 晋太郎
File:Shintarō Abe 1982.jpg
Abe in 1982
Minister of Foreign Affairs
In office
27 November 1982 – 22 July 1986
Prime MinisterYasuhiro Nakasone
Preceded byYoshio Sakurauchi
Succeeded byTadashi Kuranari
Minister of International Trade and Industry
In office
30 November 1981 – 27 November 1982
Prime MinisterZenkō Suzuki
Preceded byRokusuke Tanaka
Succeeded bySadanori Yamanaka
Chief Cabinet Secretary
In office
28 November 1977 – 7 December 1978
Prime MinisterTakeo Fukuda
Preceded bySunao Sonoda
Succeeded byRokusuke Tanaka
Minister of Agriculture and Forestry
In office
9 December 1974 – 15 September 1976
Prime MinisterTakeo Miki
Preceded byTadao Kuraishi
Succeeded byBuichi Ōishi
Member of the House of Representatives
In office
29 January 1967 – 15 May 1991
Preceded byIsamu Imazumi
Succeeded byShinzo Abe
ConstituencyYamaguchi 1st
In office
23 May 1958 – 23 October 1963
Preceded byKanemitsu Hososako
Succeeded byIsamu Imazumi
ConstituencyYamaguchi 1st
Personal details
Born(1924-04-29)29 April 1924
Tokyo City, Tokyo Prefecture, Empire of Japan
Died15 May 1991(1991-05-15) (aged 67)
Tokyo, Japan
PartyLiberal Democratic
SpouseYoko Kishi
Children
Parents
  • Kan Abe (father)
  • Shizuko Abe (mother)
RelativesSatō–Kishi–Abe family
Alma materUniversity of Tokyo

Shintaro Abe (安倍 晋太郎, Abe Shintarō; April 29, 1924 – May 15, 1991)[1] was a Japanese politician who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1982 to 1986.[2] He was a leading member of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). He was the father of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and part of the Satō–Kishi–Abe family.

Early life and education

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Shintaro Abe was born on April 29, 1924, in Tokyo, the only child of politician and member of Parliament Kan Abe. He was raised in his father's home prefecture of Yamaguchi from soon after his birth. His mother was an army general's daughter.[3]

Personal life

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Shintaro Abe and his family in 1956.
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Abe meeting Ronald Reagan in 1987.

Abe married Yoko Kishi, daughter of Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi, in 1951.[2] His second son, Shinzo Abe, served as prime minister from 2006 to 2007 and from 2012 to 2020.[4] His third son, Nobuo Kishi, was adopted by his brother-in-law shortly after birth, won a House of Representatives seat in 2012 and was appointed Minister of Defense in 2020. He was from Yamaguchi Prefecture.

Career

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After graduating from high school in 1944 during World War II, Abe entered a naval aviation school and volunteered to become a kamikaze pilot. The war ended before he could undergo the required training.[5] In 1949 he graduated from the Faculty of Law at the University of Tokyo, Shintaro Abe began his career as a political reporter for Mainichi Shimbun.[6]

Abe formally entered the political sphere in 1956, when he started working as a legislative aide of his father in-law, then-foreign minister Nobusuke Kishi.[6] He became an aide to the Prime Minister when Kishi assumed the premiership the following year. In 1958, Abe contested and won the House of Representatives seat once held by his father.[3]

He led a major LDP faction, the conservative Seiwa Seisaku Kenkyūkai, whose reins he took from former Prime Minister Takeo Fukuda in July 1986, and held a variety of ministerial and party posts, the former of which included Minister of Agriculture and Forestry and Minister of International Trade and Industry.[3] Abe was named as Minister of International Trade and Industry in the cabinet of the then prime minister Zenkō Suzuki on November 30, 1981.[7] During this period, he was seen as a young leader groomed for the future prime ministry.[7] In November 1982, he was appointed Minister for Foreign Affairs in the cabinet of the then-prime minister Yasuhiro Nakasone, replacing Yoshio Sakurauchi. His term lasted until 1986.[2]

Abe was a top contender to succeed Nakasone as prime minister in 1987, until he stepped aside for Noboru Takeshita, head of a powerful rival faction. Then, he was given the post of secretary general of the party in 1987.[2] In 1988, his chances of becoming prime minister some time in the near future were again thwarted when his name became associated with the Recruit-Cosmos insider-trading stock scandal, which brought down Takeshita and forced Abe to resign as the party's secretary general in December 1988.[2]

Death

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Shintaro Abe was hospitalized in January 1991.[3] He died at Tokyo's Juntendo University Hospital on May 15, 1991, aged 67. The cause of death was not officially announced, although various reports point to cancer, liver failure, or heart failure.[8][6][9]

Honours

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From the corresponding article in the Japanese Wikipedia

References

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