China News Service, July 8 (Reporter Meng Xiangjun) On July 8, former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was shot in the chest while giving a speech in a public place.
On July 8, local time, former Japanese Prime Minister Abe was lying on the ground after being shot during a speech in Nara City.
[shot in the back, suspect arrested]
At about 11:30 a.m. local time on July 8, a shooting incident occurred at the "Yawa Saidaiji Station" in Nara Prefecture, Japan. A man fell to the ground with blood. It was former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
When Abe was sent to the hospital, he was still conscious when he got into the ambulance, and then "heart and lung stopped".
In the end, he died of his injuries.
It was also reported that a suspect, Toru Yamagami, was also under the control of the police. He was about 41 years old, unemployed, and a former member of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force.
The suspect allegedly held a gun and shot Abe in the left chest from a distance of about three meters behind his back, with at least two hits.
The police revealed that the suspect confessed that "because of his dissatisfaction with Abe, he wanted to kill him."
[Many countries expressed their shock to the United States]
The Japanese Prime Minister's residence has established a crisis management center to deal with the shooting incident of Abe.
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida instructed all Japanese cabinet ministers to return to Tokyo urgently.
Kishida also strongly condemned the shooting in his speech.
The Japan Broadcasting Association reported that former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was shot during a speech in the city of Nara.
Image source: Screenshot of the Japan Broadcasting Association report
Regarding this matter, Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Hiroichi Matsuno said: "This kind of barbaric behavior must not be allowed, and I strongly condemn it."
In addition, Emmanuel, the US ambassador to Japan, posted that Abe is a staunch ally of the United States, and the United States is saddened and shocked by the shooting of Abe.
Regarding Abe's shooting, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said in response to an inquiry at a regular press conference on the 8th that China has noticed this sudden incident and is shocked. .
A Japanese reporter asked "how to evaluate the China policy promoted by Abe when he was prime minister".
Zhao Lijian said that China has noticed that former Prime Minister Abe once made contributions to the improvement and development of China-Japan relations.
【Five "Unfinished" of the Governing】
Abe, who stepped down less than two years ago, is Japan's longest-serving prime minister.
He served as Prime Minister of Japan for 2,803 days.
In 2006, Abe, at the age of 52, took office for the first time and became the youngest prime minister of Japan.
However, he resigned as prime minister after just one year in office, citing "health reasons".
In fact, what Abe faced at that time was the political reality of constant cabinet disputes, defeat in the Senate election, and poor implementation of government decrees.
As prime minister for the first time, Abe was on pins and needles and had to step down early with regret.
This is Abe's first "unfinished".
On August 28, 2020 local time, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced his resignation as Prime Minister at a press conference.
In 2012, Abe ran for the president of the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan again and won, becoming the first president to return to office since the founding of the Liberal Democratic Party.
This time, the prime minister has been the prime minister for eight years, which once ended the situation of changing prime ministers like a "revolving lamp" in Japan.
However, although he "boiled" himself to become the longest-serving Prime Minister of Japan, Abe still failed to complete the second term.
On August 28, 2020, Abe announced his early resignation as prime minister at a press conference.
This is Abe's second "unfinished".
How did Abe do in his second term?
The following four aspects are evident:
economy:
In order to free Japan from decades of deflation, Abe launched the "Abenomics" and "New Three Arrows", starting from the issues of stimulating the economy, social security, fertility and declining birthrates, trying to stimulate Japan's economic growth momentum. The rise of unilateralism and protectionism has failed to do so, but has led to an economic downturn.
history:
On historical issues, Abe is a hawk in Japan's Liberal Democratic Party. He visited the Yasukuni Shrine many times during his tenure and after leaving office or offered sacrifices to the Yasukuni Shrine.
His lifelong goal was to change Japan's post-war pacifist constitution and achieve "constitutional revision" in an attempt to turn Japan into a so-called "normal country".
This means denying the historical crime of Japanese aggression, which has been strongly opposed by people of insight both inside and outside Japan and in the international community.
The "constitutional revision" and "big plan" have not been implemented.
This is Abe's third "unfinished".
diplomatic:
In terms of diplomacy, Abe emphasized the status of Japan-US alliance and colluded with the US on many international political issues.
Abe once vigorously carried out diplomacy with Russia, tried to resolve territorial disputes and signed a Japan-Russia peace treaty, and tried to break the deadlock in Japan-South Korea and Japan-North Korea relations.
However, these efforts have not achieved practical results.
There is not much "legacy" left in diplomacy, becoming the fourth "unfinished" in Prime Minister Abe's career.
Anti-epidemic and the Olympics:
In addition, after the outbreak of the new crown epidemic in Japan, the Abe government did not respond well to the new crown epidemic, and the public's evaluation was very low, which directly led to a sharp drop in the approval rate of Abe's cabinet to 37%.
Data map: At the closing ceremony of the 2016 Rio Olympics, Shinzo Abe appeared in the image of Super Mario to promote the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
Photo by China News Service reporter Sheng Jiapeng
The 2020 Tokyo Olympics were also affected by the epidemic and were postponed for a year.
Abe, who originally wanted to rely on the Tokyo Olympics to boost the economy and create a new image of Japan in a new era, had his business "failed".
Previously, at the closing ceremony of the 2016 Rio Olympics, Abe appeared as a Nintendo game character "Mario" and made a high-profile announcement that he would successfully host the Tokyo Olympics.
In the end, he chose to step down in a hurry without the Tokyo Olympics being held, leaving another regret, which is Abe's fifth "unfinished".
[Life is only halfway through and I was assassinated like my grandfather]
As one of the five major political families in Japan that controlled the country's post-war political and economic trends, the Abe family has produced three prime ministers, namely Shinzo Abe, his grandfather Kishi Nobuyuki, and his great-uncle Eisaku Sato.
The Abe family is actually a political alliance family formed by the Kishi family and the Sato family through marriage, etc. With the family's east wind, Abe's political career has been greatly blessed.
Moreover, he also received the help of "noble man" Junichiro Koizumi.
Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
Why has Abe not given up on "revision of the constitution"?
In fact, this has a lot to do with his grandfather Kishi Nobuyuki.
Nobusuke Kishi served as a senior cabinet official of Hideki Tojo during World War II and was one of the 19 Class-A war criminal suspects in the "Tokyo Trial" that year.
Due to the change in policy toward Japan, the United States released Kishi and others, and Kishi became the Prime Minister of Japan in 1957.
Article 9 of the post-war Japan Peace Constitution stipulates that Japan "forever renounces wars waged as national sovereignty", "does not maintain land, navy, air force and other war forces, and does not recognize the country's right to war", etc. Kishi has always wanted to change these regulations, This is the origin of the so-called "constitutional amendment".
However, Kishi was unsuccessful.
On July 14, 1960, Nobuyuki Kishi, the prime minister, was assassinated. Although he was only injured in the leg, the government cabinet was forced to resign the next day.
Data map: Japanese people held a rally in Tokyo, calling for the maintenance of the pacifist constitution and against the Abe government's "constitutional revision" attempt.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Wang Jian
After that, Abe Shinzo's father, Abe Shintaro, was expected to take over the banner of "constitutional revision", but he died of illness before he became prime minister, and the "mission" could only be passed on to the next generation, which came to Abe Shinzo.
However, Abe has served as prime minister for two terms and has not taken a step forward in "amending the constitution".
The root cause is the strong anti-war sentiment in Japanese society.
The 67-year-old Abe came out to help the Liberal Democratic Party's senatorial candidate's campaign again this time. He never wanted to be assassinated like his grandfather.
Halfway through his life, he was slammed on the brakes.
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