TOKYO, (Reuters) - Shinzo Abe, Japan's longest-serving prime minister, launched his "Abenomics" policies to lift the economy out of deflation, beefed up Japan's military and sought to counter China’s growing clout in a historic two-term tenure. He first took office in 2006 as Japan's youngest prime minister since World War Two. But when it came to many policies, his grandfather, the late prime minister Nobusuke Kishi, seems to have mattered most. Kishi was a wartime cabinet minister imprisoned but never tried as a war criminal after World War Two. He also adopted a less apologetic stance towards Japan's World War Two actions, saying future generations should not have to keep apologising for the mistakes of the past.

Source: The Star August 28, 2020 06:11 UTC