Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk The following by WorldTribune.com columnist Don Kirk, originally appeared in The Hill. The assassination of Japan’s longest-serving prime minister, Shinzo Abe, deprived the Asia-Pacific region of a statesman whose greatest legacy is that of a staunch foe of China and North Korea. Americans may remember him as pro-American, an […]
by WorldTribune Staff, July 10, 2022 The shocking assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe two days before a national election dealt a blow to his powerful anti-China political posture in Japan, but a new MAGA-like populist party has emerged. Even after he left office in 2020, Abe was a major obstacle to China’s […]
by WorldTribune Staff, July 8, 2022 Updated Japan’s former prime minister and most popular living statesman Shinzo Abe, 67, has been shot, a government spokesman said Friday, as local media reported he showed no vital signs. He was pronounced dead at 5 p.m. local time on July 8. “Former prime minister Abe was shot at […]
FPI / September 10, 2020 Geostrategy-Direct.com Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga is expected to succeed Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who has nurtured security alliances in Asia to counter China while boosting Japan’s military under the post World War II pacifist constitution. Abe announced late last month that he is resigning due to health problems. […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 19, 2020 Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Thursday that the country should consider acquiring preemptive strike capability amid ongoing regional threats, including escalating tensions on the Korean Peninsula. He made no specific mention of Chinese military aggression believed by analysts to have been a primary factor behind his statement. Abe […]
WorldTribune, April 23, 2020 Analysis by Paul Crespo China may lose big as foreign firms relocate out of the country and move elsewhere in the aftermath of the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is most concerned about the large-scale business withdrawal from U.S. and Japanese firms operating in China. As noted […]
by WorldTribune Staff, April 6, 2020 Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Monday said he will declare a state of emergency in seven prefectures but added that the declaration does not amount to a lockdown. Japan’s approach, like Sweden’s, is less radical than that imposed on the USA. Tokyo, Kanagawa, Saitama, Chiba, Osaka, Hyogo and […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 25, 2020 Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach on Tuesday announced that the 2020 Summer Olympic Games will be postponed for about one year due to the coronavirus crisis. The opening ceremony had been planned for July 24 in Tokyo. “[T]he IOC president and […]
FPI / February 12, 2020 By establishing a muscular national security posture, Japan has emerged as a key geopolitical partner with the U.S. to contain China. In 2015, Japan’s parliament passed a set of national security laws which allow Japan to exercise the right of collective self-defense under certain, though limited, circumstances. Article nine of […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 3, 2020 Japan has dispatched a helicopter destroyer to the Middle East to safeguard the nation’s oil supplies, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said. The Takanami-class destroyer left its port near Tokyo on Feb. 2 and is tasked with protecting merchant ships and oil tankers passing through the Gulf of Oman. About […]
