Abe, who left office in 2020, was shot and killed on Friday during an election campaign speech.
Former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe lies on the ground after being shot at an election campaign event in Nara, Japan, on July 8 2022. Picture: KYODO via REUTERS
He was instrumental in winning the 2020 Olympics for Tokyo, cherishing a wish to preside over the Games and even appeared as Nintendo video game character Mario during the Olympic handover at Rio, the 2016 host. “What worries me most now is that because of my resigning, the conservative ideals that the Abe administration raised will fade,” Abe subsequently wrote in the magazine Bungei Shunju.
Deflation proved stubborn, however, and his growth strategy suffered in 2019 from a sales tax hike and the China-US trade war. The pandemic the following year triggered Japan’s deepest-ever economic slump. Five years old at the time, Abe famously heard the sound of clashes between police and leftist crowds protesting the pact outside parliament as he played on his grandfather's lap.
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