At around 17:00 local time on August 28th, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe held a press conference and announced his official resignation from the post of Prime Minister of Japan. Abe said at the meeting that due to the recurrence of ulcerative colitis, he could not make a correct political judgment and decided to resign as prime minister.

　　Abe has been suffering from ulcerative colitis, which is one of the reasons why he announced his resignation less than a year as prime minister in September 2007. Since July 2020, Abe's health has caused concerns among all parties.　

　　On the morning of August 17, Abe, now 65, set off from his private residence in Tokyo and went straight to Keio University Hospital where he stayed for more than 7 hours. On August 23, Abe went to Keio University Hospital again after a week, and stayed there for more than 3 hours.

　　Shinzo Abe was born in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan on September 21, 1954, and was born in a political family. His grandfather was a member of the Diet, his grandfather was Japanese Prime Minister Nosuke Kishi in the mid-twentieth century, and his father Shintaro Abe was the Foreign Minister of Nakasone Yasuhiro.　　

　　In 1982, Shinzo Abe resigned from Kobe Steel and served as a political secretary to his father, the foreign minister at the time. In 1993, he was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time. Shinzo Abe and Junichiro Koizumi belong to the Mori sect of the Liberal Democratic Party.

　　On September 20, 2006, Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party held a presidential election. The 51-year-old Shinzo Abe was elected, becoming the youngest president in the history of Japan's Liberal Democratic Party. After that, he won more than half of the votes in the election of the prime minister of the Japanese Senate and was elected prime minister.

　　The good times didn't last long. Due to the constant cabinet scandals and the ill health, Abe stepped down angrily in less than a year in the era when he was changing the prime minister.

　　On September 26, 2012, Abe was once again elected as the new president of the Democratic Party, and therefore became the first person to serve as president of the Liberal Democratic Party twice. On December 16, the 46th House of Representatives of the Japanese National Assembly held an election. The Liberal Democratic Party led by Abe won 294 of the 480 seats, becoming the biggest winner in the House of Representatives election.

　　On August 24, 2020, Abe surpassed former Japanese Prime Minister Eisaku Sato to become Japan’s longest consecutive prime minister.

　　(Edit Zhou Jing)

Editor in charge: [Ji Xiang]