Japan is “grieving the loss of a political giant,” one expert says, after former PM Shinzo Abe was assassinated during a campaign event.
, a fellow arch-conservative who had been campaigning in the country’s north, raced back to Tokyo on Friday upon news of the shooting.
Abe was the latest in a family line of big political players. His father served as foreign minister, while his grandfather and great-uncle were both prime ministers. Abe fought to revive Japan, which had suffered stagnation since the crash of 1991. His time at the helm of the world’s third-largest economy was characterized by his “Abenomics” cocktail of fiscal stimulus, monetary easing and structural reforms.
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