Japan’s former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was shot in the chest while delivering a speech in Nara City. Abe was in Nara campaigning ahead of Sunday’s election for the parliament’s upper house elections. While he was delivering his speech, gunshots were heard and Abe fell to the ground and went unconscious and unresponsive to resuscitative measures, and probably had a cardiac arrest, as per Kyodo. He was immediately rushed to the hospital. He was shot twice from behind.
Around 11:30 a.m. in the morning, Abe was speaking in front of Kintetsu Railway’s Yamato-Saidaiji station when he was shot from behind by a man reportedly by a shotgun.
However, the attacker of Abe has been taken into custody. A man in his 40s has been arrested for suspicion of murder and his gun has been confiscated.
Abe had resigned in August 2020, citing bad health. Since teenage he was suffering from ulcerative colitis that still could not stop him from becoming the tallest leader of Japan. However, his condition had seemingly aggravated due to which he resigned in 2020.While no one was going to question him, Abe took the courageous move of hanging his boots in the better interest of his nation, despite several unfulfilled goals, which includes revisiting Japan’s pacifist Constitution, Revitalising Japan’s economic growth among others. Though many of his goals were unfulfilled, he had the honour, humility and courage to take a backseat when needed.
Within Japan, Abe is no ordinary political leader and India also conferred second highest civilian award Padma Vibhushan to Abe in 2021. He is the greatest Japanese Prime Ministers in a long time. Before him, Tokyo witnessed 17 different Prime Ministers between 1989 and 2012. Before Abe, Japan saw six Prime Ministers in six years.
Shinzo Abe is the one who had lent political stability to Japan and instilled a strong nationalist sentiment within Japan. And this wasn’t easy. Abe faced steep challenges including a devastating earthquake, a brutal Tsunami and a nuclear disaster soon after taking office. But Abe steered Japan out of all its internal crises.
The Japanese Prime Minister wanted to make his country a global power all over again. And then what made Shinzo Abe a true world leader was his intent to take the China Challenge head-on. He led the physical process of decoupling from China by pulling 87 Japanese companies out of China.
With Abe, Japan was no longer an idle observer. He has been constantly pushing Tokyo towards giving up Pacifism and forging defence relations with strategic allies like India and Australia, apart from the traditional relations with the US. The aim is, of course, the ambition to keep China in check. And he succedded in the same to a great extent, he brought Japan at the centre of world affairs once again, both in terms of economic growth and soft power. He is the one who formalised QUAD.
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