The Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced that he resigned on Friday, citing health problems. “Even if you go a year in my possession and you meet there are challenges, I decided to submit his resignation as prime minister,” Abe said at a press conference in Tokyo. He said that he would remain as prime minister, was elected to succeed him. His right Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), which dominates the Japanese parliament, he said, will give a competitive leading to the end of September, and the winner will replace almost certainly Abe as prime minister. Abe, 65, is suffering from ulcerative colitis, a chronic intestinal disease. He told reporters that he had controlled the state for years, but that is a revival earlier this summer had made. He is now in treatment that would come with its premier functions in the conflict when he finally proposed remains his term in September 2021, he said. The disease was also a factor in 2007, Abe’s resignation of his first term as prime minister of Japan. The start in the middle of the recession in 2015 before COVID 19-pandemic and Japan come, adds: “Uncertainty about tough times,” said Jean-Pierre Cabestan, a professor of political science at Hong Kong Baptist University. second period of Abe as prime minister, which began in 2012 and lasted until three elections and nearly eight years, was a period of unusual political stability to Japan. Monday ‘, has been continuously devoted longest Prime Minister of the country. He led the recovery from the devastating Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011, and managed long-term economic stagnation of Japan through a strategy known as abenomics stopped. It also continued the development of the strategy of Indo-Pacific Japan, a foreign policy efforts for cooperation among countries in Asia and Africa expanded, and to counter Chinese hegemony. Abe has established a personal relationship with Donald Trump, before his inauguration as US president, is credited with maintaining strong US-Japanese relations during a period of global political instability. However, Abe has missed the most important policy goals, Jeff Kingston, director of Asian studies at Temple University in Tokyo says campus. “His goal [revision of the pacifist post-war constitution of Japan] remains elusive as his promise makes women to shine,” he says entering the labor market, with a view of the promise of the speech of the prime minister gender gap in Japan and more women. Abe does not provide completely rigid structural reform of the Japanese labor market – a key part of abenomics teaching – and the threat of the rapid aging of Japan’s population, with 28% of the land now over 65 “, at the age of address has little to show for a majority in the [legislature] for seven years in power to be, “said Kingston. His tenure was also marked by diplomatic disputes with neighbors in East Asia, some of which date back to the historical tensions over early 20th century imperialism of Japan. Relations with South Korea, a traditional Japanese allies suffered during Abe’s mandate. South Korea claims for violations committed during the 1910-1945 Japanese occupation of the Korean peninsula, including the use of forced labor by Japanese companies, sparked disputes on trade and the territory in 2018 and 2019. Duyeon Kim, Senior Advisor for Northeast Asia and in the international Crisis Group’s nuclear policy, he says Abe “nationalists and personally in the world” has contributed to the complicated relations between the two countries. Abe angered South Koreans, as well as consider China and North Korea in 2013 with visits to the controversial Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, which many a tribute to the imperial military past of Japan. The change in leadership in Japan “could improve the ability of the mood and the atmosphere between Seoul and Tokyo,” says Kim, “but in dealing with real improvements to be implemented, is another story.” However, despite the turmoil in the In – Abe and overseas to be remembered as the most important Prime Minister of Japan you can start from mid-20th century, said Michael J. Green, senior vice president for Asia and the Japan chair, center for strategic and International studies. “He did not reach all of Japan needed, but has achieved more than any Japanese leader in decades. And above all, has shown that can lead Japan,” he says. “More than any other democratic leaders, he kept patient Donald Trump off its election promises and worst isolationist instincts. It is not clear what is the world leader this role play when Trump is re-elected.”
Japan Shinzo Abe resigns for health reasons, Leaving unfinished political activity
