Opinion | The Postwar Japan That Shinzo Abe Built
In January 2007, only a few months after he was elected, at 52, as Japan’s youngest prime minister of the postwar era, Shinzo Abe delivered a speech outlining his policy priorities after the opening ceremony of the 166th session of Japan’s Diet, the country’s parliamentary body.
Most of the speech was a mundane laundry list of proposals, but one line proved especially revealing about the character of the man. “My mission is none other than to draw a new vision of a nation that can withstand the raging waves for the next 50 to 100 years,” Mr. Abe said.
https://tnewstimes.com/2022/07/09/latest/opinion-the-postwar-japan-that-shinzo-abe-built
Most of the speech was a mundane laundry list of proposals, but one line proved especially revealing about the character of the man. “My mission is none other than to draw a new vision of a nation that can withstand the raging waves for the next 50 to 100 years,” Mr. Abe said.
https://tnewstimes.com/2022/07/09/latest/opinion-the-postwar-japan-that-shinzo-abe-built
