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TopicShinzo Abe

Topic: Shinzo Abe

Shinzo Abe’s killer gets life term: Defence sought leniency on grounds of ‘religious abuse’

Abe was fatally shot by Tetsuya Yamagami while delivering speech at rally in Nara, a prefecture in south of Kyoto. Yamagami has been awarded life term after 3-year trial.

Japan PM Sanae Takaichi’s first test is on 28 October—her meeting with Trump

Sanae Takaichi is no feminist icon—her views on gender roles and same-sex marriage are conservative—but she is seen as resolute, even hardline, on policy.

Quad architect Shinzo Abe foresaw a world beyond alliances, says Jaishankar at book launch

The launch of 'Importance of Shinzo Abe' saw tributes from S Jaishankar, Sanjaya Baru and ambassadors Hitoshi Suzuki and Deepa Gopalan Wadhwa.

Suspect held, Japanese PM unhurt: What we know so far about ‘smoke bomb’ attack on Fumio Kishida

Witnesses saw 'pipe-like' object being hurled at Kishida followed by 'loud explosion'. Japanese PM later resumed his campaign in Wakayama Prefecture.

Shinzo Abe’s state funeral fuels backlash in Japan, deepens opposition towards current PM

Abe's assassination in July lead to revelations about ties between Abe's Liberal Democratic Party and the Unification Church. The funeral has been called 'a serious miscalculation.'

Japan’s new nationalism is alarming. Not just for China, North Korea, but allies like India

Asia's strategic landscape will force fateful choices on Japan. Embracing muscular nationalism is a response to the challenges of dangerous new times.

Trinamool mouthpiece sees ‘Agnipath’s shadow’ in Shinzo’s killing, claims shooter disgruntled

A report in mouthpiece 'Jago Bangla' claims Abe’s assassin was a former military man who was disgruntled after he left the service in 2005. BJP calls TMC supremo ‘anti-national’. 

PM Modi pens tribute in memory of ‘Dear Friend’ Shinzo Abe

'An outstanding leader of Japan, a towering global statesman & a great champion of India-Japan friendship is not among us anymore. The world has lost a great visionary,' wrote PM Modi.

Shinzo Abe, John F Kennedy, Franz Ferdinand — Political assassinations that shook the world

Former Japanese prime minister Abe was shot dead Friday morning while he was making an election speech in the city of Nara.

‘Confluence of Two Seas’: Shinzo Abe’s 2007 speech that shaped 21st-century India-Japan ties

Shinzo Abe’s address to Indian Parliament in August 2007 heralded a phase of advancing India-Japan ties. He mentioned ideological and value-based symmetries between the two countries.

On Camera

Menstrual leave doesn’t work in ‘real world’. And that real world is designed by, for men

When a woman menstruates, when/if she decides to marry, when/if she decides to have kids, should not be factors when looking at a woman’s potential from a hiring standpoint.

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.