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Shinzo Abe

Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe delivers a speech in Tokyo on May 17, 2013. Japan's premier will unveil the next stage of his plan to reboot the economy, reports said, as he seeks to capitalise on the feel-good mood of a soar away stock market and a plunging yen.

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  • Japan pulls back on denials of WWII sex slavery

    Asian women into sexual slavery before and during World War II.A parliamentary statement signed Tuesday by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe acknowledged the government had a set of documents produced by a postwar international military tribunal containing testimony   Read more »

  • Asia stocks mixed, Japan's Nikkei up as yen falls

    benchmark stock index jumped Monday after Group of 20 finance officials refrained from directly criticizing Prime Minister Shinzo Abe 's government for trying to force down the yen. Other Asian stock markets were mixed.Currency policy was centerstage at the   Read more »

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About Shinzo Abe

Shinzo Abe (安倍 晋三, Abe Shinzō?, [abe ɕinzoː] (help·info); born 21 September 1954) was the 90th Prime Minister of Japan, elected by a special session of the National Diet on 26 September 2006. He was Japan's youngest post-World War II prime minister and the first born after the war. He resigned abruptly on 12 September 2007 after months of mounting political pressure. He was replaced by Yasuo Fukuda.

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