On September 19, the former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe revealed on social media that he had visited the Yasukuni Shrine that day, and reported to the "heroes" about his retirement.

  On August 28, then Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced his resignation due to health reasons.

On September 16, Japan convened an interim parliament to hold an election by name of the prime minister. The new president of the Liberal Democratic Party, the ruling party in Japan, was successfully elected as prime minister of Japan and immediately formed a cabinet.

That morning, the entire Abe cabinet resigned at the interim cabinet meeting, marking the curtain call of the Abe cabinet, which has set the record for the longest time in Japanese history.

(Edit Zhou Jing)

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