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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
... that we slated for August and September, while this quartet is retrospective—examining and placing into immediate 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...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2015) 74 (3): 531–537.
Published: 01 August 2015
... to expect. Japanese commemorate 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...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2010) 69 (2): 507–536.
Published: 01 April 2010
... taken (Abe 2006 , 46). While Rachi Giren has played an important role in rallying support for the abductions cause in the corridors of power in Japan, it was the political rise and maneuverings of Abe Shinzō that provided the most significant public boost to the nationwide rescue movement. Abe's...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2010) 69 (1): 5–15.
Published: 01 February 2010
... it came to light that the bureaucracy had lost an estimated 50 million pension records. The LDP lost the 2007 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...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (2): 488–492.
Published: 01 May 2020
... by a resurgent state Shinto and its political arm, 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...
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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
... textbooks present a less apologetic or more proud sense of Japanese history than some in Korea wish. After his election in December 2012, Prime Minister Abe Shinzo declared that he would consider “revisiting” the question of official Japanese apologies for its actions in the early twentieth century, most...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2019) 78 (4): 956–957.
Published: 01 November 2019
... 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 Anti-Conspiracy Bill. Both in its wide-ranging effects and in its notoriety, the law had a profound impact on political discourse under imperial Japan...
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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
... 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 problems. This outlook is apparent in Innovation 25, a 2007 Abe administration proposal that pictures a future for the Japanese family whose...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2022) 81 (1): 199–205.
Published: 01 February 2022
... 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 reconstituted conventional national security structures to plan and advise him on the best course of action. Pyle suggests...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2019) 78 (2): 355–378.
Published: 01 May 2019
... should be preceded by “discussing the desired future society” and “conducted based 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...
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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
... (e.g., Krugman 2014 ). But former prime minister Abe Shinzō's widely noted 2012 campaign slogan Nippon o torimodosu , conventionally translated as “Take Japan Back” but perhaps closer to “Restore Japan,” captures strongly the sense that there was something Japan had to be taken back or restored from...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2019) 78 (4): 929–936.
Published: 01 November 2019
... on Japan's low birthrate, that women who had never given birth were undeserving of public welfare benefits. Abe Shinzō, prime minister since 2012, is a politician of the same political party as Ishihara and Mori. His proposals for a Japan in which women will shine are treated in these books with much...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (3): 621–631.
Published: 01 August 2020
... 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, and the government's narrative of a “Recovery Games”—which now has a global referent to go...
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