A look at Shinzo Abe's contribution as Japan's longest serving prime minister. Taking them from economic and social decline, to a flourishing country.
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He lifted his country out of the pacifist dogma adopted following World War Two. He contributed massively to Japan’s transformation into a country careful with its geopolitical and strategic interests so it could take up the seat it deserved at the table of global security operations. He was called a fascist by certain under-developed minds. But in reality, Shinzo Abe was a civic activist who loved his country ? a staunchly, democratic man, fully dedicated to strengthening Japan.
He had, however, inherited a country in the midst of a deep crisis, that was not only economic and financial, but also existential. Therefore, he had to handle an insidious deflationary spiral with no end in sight, the implosion of the credit market, a completely unprecedented collapse in real estate, the almost total decimation of his stock market, productivity in permanent decline, the loss of competitiveness of what were once Japan?s legendary enterprises, a severe demographic decline, and the aftermath of a tsunami that devastated Fukushima, killing 16,000 people. Many articles I have penned on Shinzo Abe ? on his exceptional voluntarism and his original eponymous programme (?Abenomics?) ? was based on the famous...