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	The Advent of the Abe Administration : FUJITSU RESEARCH INSTITUTE
		The ascent of Shinzo Abe to prime minister was prefaced by an election within the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) in which Shinzo Abe, Sadakazu Tanigaki and Taro Aso vied for the title of party president.
		Abe, who has just turned 52 and is the youngest post-war prime minister, officially became the 90th prime minister of Japan at an extraordinary session of the Diet on the 26th.
		The Abe administration is preparing to tackle fundamental issues such as constitutional revision and education reform, and also seems intent on raising the functional power of the prime minister’s office to the level of the White House in the US.
	jp.fujitsu.com /group/fri/en/column/message/200609/2006-09-27.html (601 words)

	Abe Shintaro (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Shintarō Abe (安部晋太郎; April 29, 1924 - May 15, 1991) was a Japanese politician.
		He became Minister of Agriculture, Minister of trade, and eventually Minister of Foreign Affairs under the governement of Nakasone Yasuhiro.
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	www.wapipedia.com /wikipedia/mobiletopic.aspx?cur_title=Abe_Shintar%c3%b4 (88 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Asia-Pacific \| Profile: Shinzo Abe
		Mr Abe has pledged to shake up the department responsible for the mistakes and to sort out the mess by early next year.
		Born in Nagato, Yamaguchi prefecture, Mr Abe is a member of a high-profile political family.
		He is the son of Shintaro Abe, a former foreign minister, and grandson of former prime minister Nobusuke Kishi, who was arrested as a suspected war criminal after World War II but never charged.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/asia-pacific/4392480.stm (632 words)

	Shinzo Abe: Japan's new prime minister
		Abe’s emphasis on his postwar birth was to send a message that his government will no longer be hampered by the legacy of Japan’s militarist past.
		Abe’s own father, Shintaro, was also a leading LDP politician, who was slated to become prime minister but died suddenly in 1991.
		Abe accompanied Koizumi to Pyongyang in 2002 and pressed for an admission of, and apology for, the abductions.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2006/sep2006/sabe-s26.shtml (1761 words)

	Japan's new arch-conservative PM \| www.azstarnet.com ®
		Shinzo Abe, the prime minister to be, left, sits with his father, Shintaro, who served as foreign minister in the 1980s.
		Abe hasn't yet spelled out a full vision, and analysts say he may face difficulties in repairing frayed relations with key trading partners China and South Korea because of his refusal to cast judgment on Japan's wartime behavior.
		Abe's unwillingness to rule out a visit to Yasukuni himself and his refusal to judge Japan's wartime role, however, prompt his opponents to forecast greater frictions between Japan and its neighbors.
	www.azstarnet.com /allheadlines/148070 (574 words)

	The Koizumi legacy and Japan's future Andrew Stevens - openDemocracy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Shinzo Abe, frontrunner in the three-way contest to succeed Junichiro Koizumi as president of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) was indeed elected to the post on 20 September 2006.
		This gave Abe's bid for the LDP presidency greater leverage than his chief rival Taro Aso (the grandson of influential post-war prime minister Shigeru Yoshida), whose experience at the interior and foreign ministries also provided the opportunity for high-profile gaffes over relations with China and North Korea.
		Abe's cabinet may accommodate LDP traditionalists in a way that Koizumi resisted, but he has also closely observed the quasi-imperial style of leadership lately fashionable in London and Washington, suggesting that he may seek to echo a Koizumi-type distance from his own colleagues.
	www.opendemocracy.net /conflict-institutions_government/shinzo_abe_3924.jsp (1676 words)

	FT.com / Home UK / UK - The son also rises (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Abe's interpretation of his grandfather's stance was that he was serving Japan's kokueki, its national interest, the core of Abe's political credo and the key to understanding the likely tenor of his premiership.
		Abe was vigorously defending Koizumi's right to his annual pilgrimage, using the sort of forthright language against China that has earned him the reputation as a hawk.
		Abe may have been born to be prime minister, yet it was not until this month, in a speech to party faithful in Hiroshima, that he formally announced what his family has been waiting a lifetime to hear: he would seek the nation's top office.
	www.ft.com /cms/s/67fa8fbc-4520-11db-b804-0000779e2340.html (4562 words)

	Abe set to redefine Japan's foreign relations
		Abe's maternal grandfather, Nobusuke Kishi, was arrested as a Class-A war criminal after World War II for his leadership role in Japan's wartime government before being rehabilitated.
		Abe insisted that such visits were a matter of individual conviction and that he would "continue to hold his hands together" for the dead.
		Abe, the scion of a political dynasty, is en route to be Japan's youngest leader, no matter how his political thoughts have been depicted.
	www.nationmultimedia.com /2006/09/23/opinion/opinion_30014429.php (1071 words)

	Shinzo Abe: Japan’s New Prime Minister By John Chan
		Abe’s emphasis on his postwar birth was to send a message that his government will no longer be hampered by the legacy of Japan’s militarist past.
		Abe’s own father, Shintaro, was also a leading LDP politician, who was slated to become prime minister but died suddenly in 1991.
		Abe accompanied Koizumi to Pyongyang in 2002 and pressed for an admission of, and apology for, the abductions.
	www.countercurrents.org /chan270906.htm (1733 words)

	The Raw Story \| Abe seeks to break with Japan's postwar past By Chie Matsumoto
		His father was foreign minister Shintaro Abe and his grandfather was postwar prime minister Nobusuke Kishi, who was a large influence on prime minister-designate's conservatism.
		Abe is widely popular despite being a relative newcomer to Japan's political scene.
		Abe's immediate challenge is whether he can secure sufficient members for his party in local elections to win a majority in the elections scheduled next summer for parliament's House of Councillors - all of which he is supposed to accomplish amid worries about his lack of political experience.
	rawstory.com /news/2006/Abe_seeks_to_break_with_Japan_s_pos_09202006.html (680 words)

	Japan's Abe set to cash in on popularity - Boston.com
		Abe, 51, the scion of a leading political family and the poster-boy for Japan's new generation of nationalist leaders, is now on the verge of cashing in on that popularity as Japan's youngest postwar prime minister.
		The raven-haired Abe is far and away the top candidate to take over on Sept. 20 as president of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, a position that guarantees his election by the LDP-controlled parliament to succeed Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi.
		Abe's handling of the North Korean kidnapping issue illustrates the traits he will likely bring to the job: a hard-line against North Korea, a defiant and muscular nationalism and a keen ability to please the crowd.
	www.boston.com /news/world/asia/articles/2006/08/31/japans_abe_set_to_cash_in_on_popularity?mode=PF (899 words)

	USATODAY.com - Nationalist elected as Japanese prime minister (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Abe has called for repairing relations with China and South Korea, though he is a firm backer of the Yasukuni war shrine, reviled by critics as a symbol of Japanese militarism.
		Abe pledged to pursue both economic growth and fiscal reform, offering to cut his own pay by 30% and those of his Cabinet by 10% to demonstrate his commitment to trimming the budget.
		Abe faces the further challenge of filling the shoes of Koizumi, who pushed through major economic reforms, backed a groundbreaking dispatch of soldiers to Iraq, and brought Japanese politics into the modern media age in his five years at the helm.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2006-09-26-japan-abe_x.htm (1152 words)

	GLOCOM Platform - Media Reviews - News Review
		Shinzo Abe was born in 1954 as a son of Shintaro Abe, who was a son-in-law of Nobusuke Kishi.
		Shintaro Abe was also a politician, assisting Kishi as a personal secretary in 1956, and after serving a number of ministerial posts, being Foreign Minister from 1982 to 1986.
		In fact, Mr Abe's victory was largely due to his image being the follower to Mr Koizumi, as endorsed by Mr Koizumi himself expressing support for Mr Abe at the last stage of the election.
	www.glocom.org /media_reviews/n_review/20060921_news_review364/index.html (519 words)

	Bloomberg.com: Japan
		Abe said he is ``committed'' to doubling foreign investment in the country in four years through changes in the law and will offer subsidies to local regions that attract overseas capital.
		Abe has been part of the administration since Koizumi took office in April 2001, when Japan was in its third recession in a decade, and faced a dysfunctional banking system and large fiscal deficits.
		Abe said he hoped to achieve a revising of Japan's pacifist constitution, written by the U.S. after World War II, which would remove a ban on military forces and end debate over whether the nation's self-defense troops are constitutional.
	www.bloomberg.com /apps/news?pid=20601101&sid=a6DrHCpjuT_0&refer=japan (938 words)

	Japan: Beginning of Abe era — Way Ahead (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Firstly, as son of Shintaro Abe, former LDP Secretary-General and grandson of former Prime Minister Nobuske Kishi who once had been held as a war criminal on suspicion, politics seem to be running in his blood.
		Abe’s admission (Tokyo, September 11, 2006) that it would take about 5 years from now for accomplishing the revision, appears to be based on his reckoning that enough time is needed if the requirement for a two-third support in both the houses of Parliament and a majority in a national referendum has to be met.
		Abe visited the shrine in April 2006 as Chief Cabinet Secretary to the Government and on the question of his future visits as Prime Minister, he has been non-committal only indicating (Tokyo, September 11, 2006) his possible ‘unofficial’ visits to the shrine in future.
	www.saag.org /\papers20\paper1960.html (1458 words)

	Japan's Hawkish Abe Popular But Unproven
		Abe does not hesitate to invoke the name of his father, Shintaro Abe, a former foreign minister once known as "the prince" of Japanese politics.
		It was Shintaro Abe's death from liver cancer in 1991 - as he was poised to become prime minister - that propelled his son into politics.
		Shinzo Abe, born in the small city of Nagato on the Sea of Japan coast, won his first election for a seat in Parliament by a landslide in his father's district in Yamaguchi Prefecture.
	www.voanews.com /english/archive/2006-09/2006-09-13-voa3.cfm?CFID=7573512&CFTOKEN=57640805 (576 words)

	Stronger Japan a boon for Asia
		If Abe were to continue Koizumi's tradition of making these trips to commemorate Japan's war dead, including notorious war criminals, it would cause irreparable damage to Japan's external relations.
		It is our hope that Abe, who prior to his appointment as prime minister made regular visits to the shrine, understands the sensitivity surrounding these visits.
		At the top of Abe's agenda now is finding ways to work together with China to ensure that no dramatic disruption in relations occurs again, as has been the case over the past three years.
	www.nationmultimedia.com /2006/09/29/opinion/opinion_30014920.php (739 words)

	Comcast.net
		Abe won 339 votes out of 475 counted in the powerful lower house, and 136 ballots out of 240 in the upper house, reflecting the dominance of his ruling Liberal Democratic Party in parliament.
		Abe signaled the primary directions of his government on Monday by choosing a pro-growth fiscal conservative and a fellow nationalist Cabinet minister to two top posts in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party.
		He worked as an aide to his politician father Shintaro Abe, and then was elected to parliament in 1993, but was little known until he took the lead in 2002 in negotiating the release of Japanese abducted by North Korea.
	www.comcast.net /includes/article/print.jsp?fn=/data/news/html//2006/09/26/484988.html (659 words)

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		The decision came the day after Shinzo Abe was elected leader of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, positioning him to be chosen as Japan’s next prime minister by parliament next week.
		Abe favors changing the nation’s pacifist constitution and pushing through reforms to place a greater emphasis on patriotism in public school curricula.
		The 401 plaintiffs sued the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, led by nationalist Gov. Shintaro Ishihara, and the Tokyo education board over a 2003 directive that threatened teachers with punishment for not honoring the anthem and flag.
	www.cbn.com /CBNnews/28809.aspx (498 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Akutagawa Prize (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Kobo Abe (安部公房 Abe Kōbō, pseudonym of Kimifusa Abe (Abe Kimifusa, born March 7, 1924 - January 22, 1993) was a Japanese writer.
		Shintaro Ishihara (石原慎太郎 Ishihara Shintarō; born 1932), author, outspoken Japanese nationalist, populist, and current governor of Tokyo, was born in Hyogo Prefecture in Japan.
		Previously, the youngest Akutagawa winners were all 23-year-old males, among them the current Tokyo Governor Shintaro Ishihara and novelist Oe Kenzaburo, who later went on to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1994.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Akutagawa-Prize (2851 words)

	SSRC :: Abe Fellowships Fellowship :: Abe Fellowships (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Shintaro Abe, former Japanese Minister for Foreign Affairs, who proposed in 1990 to establish the Center.
		Abe Fellows are expected to demonstrate a long-term commitment to these goals by participating in program activities over the course of their careers.
		Abe Fellows will be expected to affiliate with an American or Japanese institution appropriate to their research.
	www.ssrc.org /fellowships/abe/Detailed_Application_Criteria.page (1552 words)

	Prime Minister Shinzo Abe - Cabinet Profiles \| The Japan Times Online
		Abe was born into a family of prominent politicians, having Nobusuke Kishi, a wartime Cabinet member who later became prime minister, as a grandfather, and the late Foreign Minister Shintaro Abe as his father.
		Abe vowed to take Japan's top post to achieve the ambition of his father, who died of cancer in 1991 while being a top contender for the prime ministership at the time.
		Abe gained fame in 2002 when, as deputy chief Cabinet secretary, he played a key role that October in then Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's effort to repatriate five Japanese abductees from North Korea.
	www.japantimes.co.jp /cabinet/cabinet_profiles_a.html (264 words)

	Nieuwe Japanse premier telg van politieke dynastie - telegraaf.nl [Buitenland]
		Abe, met 52 jaar de jongste naoorlogse Japanse premier, volgt in de voetsporen van zijn grootvader, Nobosuke Kishi, die na de Tweede Wereldoorlog als oorlogsmisdadiger werd opgepakt, maar op het politieke toneel terugkeerde en van 1957 tot 1960 het premierschap vervulde.
		Abe wil ook af van de na de oorlog door de VS opgelegde grondwet die elk militair optreden van Japan buiten de landsgrenzen verbiedt.
		Abe studeerde in 1977 af aan de Seikei-universiteit in Tokyo en volgde daarna een studie politicologie aan de University of Southern California.
	www.telegraaf.nl /buitenland/article50566821.ece?rss (465 words)

	Japan’s new PM pushes for close relationship with USA - Pravda.Ru
		Abe, at 52 Japan's youngest postwar prime minister, has pushed for a continued close relationship with top ally the United States, revision of the pacifist constitution, a more robust Japanese foreign policy, and patriotic teaching in public schools.
		Abe signaled the primary directions of his government on Monday by choosing a pro-growth fiscal conservative and a fellow nationalist Cabinet minister to two top posts in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, the AP reports.
		Abe, 52, is son of the late Shintaro Abe, who rose to be foreign minister in 1982, but never realized the goal of becoming prime minister.
	english.pravda.ru /world/asia/26-09-2006/84656-Shinzo_Abe-0 (735 words)

	Magyar Rádió Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Végül a múlt héten Abe Shinzo lett a Liberális Demokrata Párt elnöke, ami a parlamenti erőviszonyok ismeretében azt jelenti, hogy őt választja miniszterelnökké a törvényhozás.
		Abe Shinzo 52 éves, így ő a második világháború óta Japán legfiatalabb miniszterelnöke, családja azonban hosszú évek óta ott van a politika élvonalában.
		Mindenesetre ez is szerepet játszhatott abban, hogy az utóbbi hetek közvélemény-kutatásai azt mutatták: minden harmadik japán Abe Shinzót látná legszívesebben a kormány élén.
	www.radio.hu /read/198031/rid/PT1RTjJBVE0= (394 words)

	Shinzo Abe Biography (Political Leader) — FactMonster.com
		Abe (pronounced "ah-bay") was something of a born politician: his father and paternal grandfather were both high-ranking members of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), and his mother's father was Nobusuki Kishi, Japan's prime minister from 1957 to 1960.
		Abe was named Chief Cabinet Secretary for Koizumi In October of 2005, and the next September he succeeded Koizumi as prime minister.
		Abe advocates a strong national defense and a foreign policy that strengthens ties to the United States as a counterweight to future threats from China and North Korea.
	www.factmonster.com /biography/var/shinzoabe.html (449 words)

	Hawkish Abe set to become Japan's youngest premier \| International News \| News \| Telegraph
		Mr Abe swept to victory in the LDP vote and should be confirmed as prime minister when parliament reconvenes next week.
		Mr Abe has said the constitution should be amended "to fit Japan as a 21st-century nation", which is believed to mean that the position of Japan's de facto army, the Self-Defence Forces, should be regularised and that Japan should be freed to play a larger international role in partnership with its ally, the United States.
		Mr Abe forged his tough reputation in the campaign to demand the return of Japanese citizens kidnapped by Stalinist North Korea in the 1970s and 1980s.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/09/20/wjapan20.xml (644 words)

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