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Journal of Asian Studies (2018) 77 (4): 881–893.
Published: 01 November 2018
...Jeff Kingston Abstract Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's troubles in 2018 owe much to Japan's resilient liberal media. Between 2011 and 2017, the media was mostly on its back foot, losing credibility over its initial coverage about the Fukushima nuclear accident and withstanding heavy-handed efforts...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (3): 599–608.
Published: 01 August 2020
...Kate McDonald Abstract In March 2020, Prime Minister Abe Shinzō, the Tokyo Olympic Organising Committee, and the International Olympic Committee postponed the 2020 Tokyo Olympics for one year. The delay is the most prominent consequence of the COVID-19 crisis in Japan thus far. But the “Corona...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2015) 74 (4): 797–820.
Published: 01 November 2015
...John Delury; Sheila A. Smith; Maria Repnikova; Srinath Raghavan Abstract Editor's Introduction: In mid-August 2015, Japanese prime minister Abe Shinzo gave a high-profile speech looking back at the Japanese surrender of 1945. Three weeks later, also to mark the seventieth anniversary of the end...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2015) 74 (4): 793–796.
Published: 01 November 2015
... historical perspective such things as Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's mid-summer speech and the late-summer parade held in Beijing. The participants in the current set of essays are: J ohn D elury , who was trained in Chinese history but is now based in Seoul and toggles between writing about the past...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2015) 74 (3): 531–537.
Published: 01 August 2015
... the end of World War II on August 15, the date of the emperor's broadcast announcing the surrender in 1945. On that day in 2015, Prime Minister Shinzō Abe will make a speech to mark what is known in Japan as “the seventieth anniversary of the postwar,” a distinctive term that accents the peace...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2010) 69 (2): 507–536.
Published: 01 April 2010
.... However, there remained elements of policy continuity; Tokyo still sought the return of all abductees, a complete revelation of the truth behind the abductions, and punishment of the perpetrators. List of References Shinzō Abe . 2006 . Utsukushii Kuni e [Toward a beautiful country...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2010) 69 (1): 5–15.
Published: 01 February 2010
... House of Councilors election in no small part because of this fiasco, and lingering anger undoubtedly soured the 2009 House of Representatives campaign for the party. Neither Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in 2007 nor Taro Aso in 2009 was a strong campaigner for the party, and their unpopularity was another...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (2): 488–492.
Published: 01 May 2020
..., the Shinto Association of Spiritual Leadership (Shinseiren), currently chaired by Prime Minister Abe Shinzō. He gives a chilling account of how difficult it has become for public schools not to raise the Rising Sun flag and sing the national anthem, both of which are associated with World War II militarism...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (1): 203–204.
Published: 01 February 2020
... of the conversation about Japanese politics today focuses on Prime Minister Abe Shinzō and his Liberal Democratic Party's continued hold on power. Abe's advantage is his pedigree and his family's dominance of postwar Japanese politics. His approach to Japan's foreign and defense policies is almost always directly...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (3): 829–830.
Published: 01 August 2021
..., former prime minister Abe Shinzō asked Japanese citizens to emulate the bravery of their Meiji ancestors in addressing various crises facing the country and to help open the door to a “new era.” Abe's comments epitomize the way in which the Restoration has largely been understood within the framework...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2013) 72 (2): 233–250.
Published: 01 May 2013
..., on Abe Shinzo: I agree with much of Victor's characterization of him, but I would like to clarify that while I don't think that it's proper to think of the LDP's return as a step backward or stagnation, I don't see this as a promising sign either. Indeed, I agree with Victor's characterization of Abe's...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2019) 78 (4): 956–957.
Published: 01 November 2019
... conspiracies to alter the “ kokutai ” (commonly translated as “national polity” or “essence”) and the system of private property. Progressive critics called it an “evil law” ( akuhō ) at the time of its passage, while more recently it has served as a cautionary tale for critics of Prime Minister Abe Shinzō’s...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (4): 1030–1032.
Published: 01 November 2020
.... The book's opening on that ideological imbroglio that is Abe Shinzō's chauvinistic Toward a Beautiful Japan (2006) is not just a rhetorical wink. Rather, it is a courageous declaration of historians’ responsibility to intervene in the present—in this case, as exorcists of a social construct that still...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2019) 78 (2): 449–454.
Published: 01 May 2019
... they vouchsafe, is far from realization. Robertson masterfully argues that the robotic figure has come to populate conservative visions of the future. Prime Minister Abe Shinzō has appropriated the mechanical person as the means of moving Japan forward, beyond its current age, gender, birthrate, and labor...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2022) 81 (1): 199–205.
Published: 01 February 2022
... recently, perceptions that US power has declined and America's turn to isolationist populism under Trump made for a veritable national security renaissance during Abe Shinzo's second premiership (2012–20). Japan began to pursue its overseas interests in more autonomous fashion. Abe's government...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2019) 78 (2): 355–378.
Published: 01 May 2019
... on a national consensus” on “the scope of acceptance of foreigners necessary in realizing such a society” (MOJ 2000 , 2015 ). Likewise, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has asserted that the question of immigration is a matter of Japan's “future form and the whole nation's life,” which should be considered...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2018) 77 (3): 693–711.
Published: 01 August 2018
... contributed to Park Geun-hye's victory in the presidential election in December of that year to some extent. Similarly, for conservative Japanese politicians such as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, territorial disputes over Dokdo/Takeshima or Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands can be viewed as an effective tool or opportunity...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2022) 81 (4): 673–687.
Published: 01 November 2022
...), composed his own five-volume comic book version in 2011–12. Japan's former and soon-to-return-to-power prime minister, the famed nationalist Abe Shinzō, also remarked on his admiration for the book. More recently, Hyakuta has thrown caution to the wind in provocatively expressing his political and personal...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2019) 78 (4): 929–936.
Published: 01 November 2019
... councils. Kathryn Hemmann reinforces the notion of conservative male politicians as the enemy of feminism when she cites former prime minister Mori Yoshirō’s statement, in a 2003 speech on Japan's low birthrate, that women who had never given birth were undeserving of public welfare benefits. Abe Shinzō...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (3): 621–631.
Published: 01 August 2020
... Productive projects have suffered more than repressive ones, particularly those requiring travel. McDonald shows us that one big postponed project—the Tokyo Olympics—was very much designed to buttress the Abe Shinzō government. But, as she also notes, the Olympics is postponed, not canceled...
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