The shock felt by many in Japan was a reflection of the mark he made on the country during his time as its longest-serving leader and the third generation of a political dynasty.
while election campaigning on Friday, but he was still the country’s most influential and polarising political figure.
His abrupt resignation from a second term as prime minister due to ill health in August 2020 panicked capital markets and shocked a country enjoying a rare period of political stability. “He was also determined to draw a line under the legacy of the Pacific War and what he saw as the never ending and highly political demands that Japan continue to apologise for its conduct in that conflict.”Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, those ambitions looked like being realised with the current administration of Fumio Kishida adopting a tough line on Moscow’s actions and
More recently, he has talked about the need for Japan to consider allowing American nuclear weapons on Japanese soil.
“He deepened Japan’s relationship with Australia, managed a difficult relationship with president Trump better than any other leader and repaired the relationship with China. He elevated Japan’s standing internationally,” says Shiro Armstrong, director of The Australian National University’s Australia-Japan Research Centre
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