- Shintaro Abe
Shintaro Abe (安倍 晋太郎; "Abe Shintarō",
April 29 ,1924 -May 15 ,1991 ) was aJapan esepolitician fromYamaguchi Prefecture .He was the eldest son of member of Parliament
Kan Abe and son-in-law of Prime MinisterNobusuke Kishi . He was married to Yoko Kishi, daughter of Prime MinisterNobusuke Kishi . His second son,Shinzo Abe , became Prime Minister of Japan onSeptember 26 ,2006 . Shintaro Abe was a leading member of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP).He led a major LDP faction, the conservative Seiwa Seisaku Kenkyukai, whose reins took from former Prime Minister
Takeo Fukuda in July 1986, and held a variety of Cabinet and party posts. He became Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Minister ofTrade and lately, in July 1986, Minister of Foreign Affairs within the Government ofYasuhiro Nakasone .Abe was a top contender to succeed Nakasone as Prime Minister in 1987, until he stepped aside for
Noboru Takeshita , head of a powerful rival faction. Then, he was given the post of General Secretary of the party. In 1988, his chances of becoming Prime Minister sometime in a near future were again thwarted when his name became associated with the Recruit-Cosmos insider-trading stock scandal, which brought down Takeshita and forced Abe to resign as the party General Secretary in December 1988. Although Abe seemed to regain his political influence, a liver cancer claimed his life before he was able to make another bid for the prime ministership.ee also
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List of Japanese politicians
*Politics of Japan
*Japan
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