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Reflecting on Shinzo Abe’s Legacy, Part 1: Early Influence and Ideology

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Rodger Baker
Director, Stratfor Center for Applied Geopolitics at RANE, Stratfor

Jul 15, 2022 | 19:18 GMT

Shinzo Abe visits Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam’s Kilo Pier in Honolulu, Hawaii on Dec. 27, 2016. Abe was the first Japanese prime minister to visit Pearl Harbor with a U.S. president and the first to visit the USS Arizona Memorial cataloging the toll of the 1941 attack. 

Shinzo Abe visits Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam’s Kilo Pier in Honolulu, Hawaii, on Dec. 27, 2016. Abe was the first Japanese prime minister to visit Pearl Harbor with a U.S. president and the first to visit the USS Arizona Memorial. 

(Kent Nishimura/Getty Images)

Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe may have failed in many of his domestic reform initiatives, but his conceptualization of the Indo-Pacific as a single strategic region remains a potent concept. In the first part of this series on Abe's life and legacy, we look back at the historical events and figures that shaped the late Japanese leader's ideologies. In the second part, we’ll explore the strategic context and enduring geopolitical impact of Abe’s eight-year term as prime minister. ...

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