Kishida’s policies represent the vision of Shinzo Abe, the former Japanese prime minister who was assassinated last year, after he was out of office.

Source: https://news.antiwar.com/2023/01/04/japans-kishida-vows-stronger-alliance-with-us-amid-military-buildup/

POLITICIANS IN JAPAN have marked one year since the assassination of Japan’s former leader Shinzo Abe, with Prime Minister Fumio Kishida pledging to tackle pressing political goals as a way of honouring Abe’s wishes.

Source: https://www.thejournal.ie/shinzo-abe-first-anniversary-6113270-Jul2023/

The decision was made by senior officials of the faction, Seiwa Seisaku Kenkyukai, formerly headed by the late Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, ahead of a fundraising party in 2022.

Source: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/12/25/japan/politics/abe-faction-failed-to-withdraw-kickbacks/

The idea of Quad was first mooted by the late Prime Minister of Japan, Shinzo Abe, in 2007.

Source: http://southasiajournal.net/the-independence-of-indias-foreign-policy-quad-and-shanghai-cooperation-organization-sco/

The incident occurred less than a year after former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was fatally shot when giving a stump speech in Nara Prefecture, western Japan, shocking the nation where violence involving guns and explosives is rare.

Source: https://japantoday.com/category/crime/suspect-in-explosives-attack-on-japan-leader-kishida-to-be-indicted

The last time Buffett visited Japan was in 2011, shortly before the late Prime Minister Shinzo Abe helped spur the country’s multi-year bull market.

Source: https://seekingalpha.com/article/4595762-why-buffett-is-betting-on-japan?source=feed_all_articles