Shinzo Abe: A central figure in India-Japan ties Former Senior Fellow at Centre for Public Policy and faculty member at IIMB, Prof. N Ravi writes about how Abe Shinzo’s leadership transformed Japan’s relationship with India, in the context of his sudden and tragic demise

In the demise of former Prime Minister of Japan Abe Shinzo, under tragic circumstances, India has lost an extremely valuable friend. His paradigm for Japan’s role in this century and India’s place in that frame has been farsighted.  Belonging to an elite politcal dynasty, Prime Minister Abe was the son of Shintaro Abe, onetime Foreign Minister of Japan and also the grandson of post-war PM Nobosuke Kishi who finalized a new security agreement with the USA, in 1960.  Prime Minister Abe attained his position at a very young age of…

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