Why Shinzo Abe was such a towering figure in Japan | 2022 | News

Why Shinzo Abe was such a towering figure in Japan
Tobias Burns | The Hill
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On July 8, 2022, CIS Director Richard Samuels was quoted by Tobias Burns from The Hill following Shinzo Abe's assassination. 

 

Quote: Abe "sought to shift the center of graqvity in Japanese political culture away from the pacificm that characterized most of the early to mid-post-war period to a place that was, in his view more normal."