Shinzo Abe Made the World Better
The assassinated Japanese leader was the visionary architect of a vital security alliance in the Indo-Pacific region.
Updated at 12:54 p.m. ET on July 8, 2022
The Japan That Can Say No was the title of a once-famous book by a once-rising Japanese politician.
Shinzo Abe, the former Japanese prime minister who was assassinated earlier today, bequeaths a much prouder legacy: a Japan that can—and does—say yes.
Abe was more than the longest-serving prime minister in Japanese democratic history. Although he left office in
