JapanShinzo Abe was a Japanese Liberal Democratic Party politician and the country's longest-serving prime minister, in office 2006 to 2007 and 2012 to 2020. He was assassinated in July 2022 while campaigning in Nara.
In the 12 Axes register, Shinzo Abe leans hardest on Internationalism – Nationalism: Nationalism 83%; the register median is balanced 50%.
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Where Shinzo Abe sits on each of the twelve axes, in four categories. The label is our estimate; the line under it says why.
Unitary
Governed Japan's unitary state of 47 prefectures
Representative Democracy
Elected LDP leader; served 2006–07 and 2012–20
Centrist
Passed the 2013 State Secrecy Law
Nationalist
Member of the nationalist organization Nippon Kaigi
Military-Focused
Reinterpreted Article 9; passed 2015 security laws
Assimilationist
Backed short-term worker visas but resisted permanent immigration
Economic Liberal
'Abenomics' included deregulated economic zones
Markets
Pro-market reforms alongside monetary easing
Free Trade
Revived the Trans-Pacific Partnership as a 2018 agreement
Moderate
Visited Yasukuni Shrine in 2013
Conservative
Conservative on family and education law
Technological
Promoted the 'Society 5.0' technology agenda
Set against the median of all 124 figures in the register.
Planned – Markets
On Planned – Markets, Shinzo Abe is at Markets 68%. The register median is Planned 68%.
Federal – Unitary
On Federal – Unitary, Shinzo Abe is at Unitary 68%, almost the register median of Unitary 68%.
Closeness is 100 minus the root-mean-square distance on all twelve axes.
Sources: en.wikipedia.org · www.cidob.org
Portrait: Prime Minister of Japan Official, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons, cropped and resized.
The tiers on this page are our estimates from public positions and policies. They are not an official statement by the person or the government concerned. Two independent passes scored every axis and a third settled the differences. How the register works. Found a mistake? Write to [email protected].
