Assassinating history

Inez Ponce de leon - @inquirerdotnet 07/13/2022

In 2014, I advised a thesis group that created an online archive for comfort women’s stories. They worked under the model of people’s history (as conceptualized by Howard Zinn), or history told through the eyes of those…

How Abe changed Japan

Bill Emmott - @inquirerdotnet 07/11/2022

Former Japanese prime minister Abe Shinzō’s assassination at an election campaign event in Nara, Japan, is both shocking and puzzling. It is shocking because Japan has known almost no political violence for at least a half-century, and…

Shinzo Abe murder suspect: What we know

Agence France Presse 07/09/2022

TOKYO — The man accused of assassinating Japan’s former prime minister Shinzo Abe has been arrested and named by police as Tetsuya Yamagami. Police say the unemployed 41-year-old admits shooting Abe with a homemade gun at a…

Japan in mourning as body of assassinated PM Shinzo Abe brought to Tokyo

Agence France Presse 07/09/2022

TOKYO—Japan on Saturday (July 9) mourned for former prime minister Shinzo Abe, who was assassinated on Friday (July 8) and whose body was transported to Tokyo from the western town of Nara where he was gunned down at close…

Japan ex-PM Shinzo Abe dies after being shot while making a speech

Reuters 07/08/2022

NARA, Japan — Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Japan’s longest-serving leader, died on Friday after being shot while campaigning for a parliamentary election, public broadcaster NHK said. A man opened fire on Abe, 67, from behind with…

Japan’s Abe re-elected as ruling party leader, to stay on as Japan PM

AP 09/20/2018

TOKYO — Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was re-elected as head of his ruling Liberal Democratic Party in a landslide Thursday, paving the way for up to three more years as the nation’s leader. The decisive victory…

Abe aims at North Korea

AFP 10/23/2017

After ‘super-majority’ vote win Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe pledged Monday to work with the US, China and Russia to contain North Korea’s nuclear threat with “strong, resolute diplomacy,” as he “humbly” accepted his landslide victory in…

Abe kicks off ‘difficult’ election battle

AFP 09/28/2017

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe dissolved parliament Thursday, effectively kicking off a national election campaign where he faces an unexpected and formidable challenge from the popular governor of Tokyo. Members of the lower house raised their arms…

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