Join experts as they reflect on the legacy left behind by the late Shinzo Abe, Japan’s longest-serving prime minister.
On July 8, 2022, the world faced a shocking news. Shinzo Abe, the longest-serving Japanese prime minister since the Meiji Restoration, was assassinated during an election rally. During his decades-long political career, Abe emerged as one of the visionaries for the future course of Japan. Since the departure of Abe, the strategic vision Abe laid out for Japan continued to blossom under his successors, most recently the incumbent Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, Please Join Yuki Tatsumi, Director of the Japan Program, as she engages in the conversation with Kunihiko Miyake whom once served side-by-side with Abe and witnessed Abe’s evolution as a statesman up-close, and Tobias Harris, an author of the Iconoclast,: Shinzo Abe and the New Japan (2020), the only English biographer of Abe.
