Shinzo Abe's policies take on renewed significance for Japan
The assassination of the former prime minister has prompted the world to reflect on his policies and what they actually accomplished.
Shinzo Abe was Japan's longest-serving and perhaps its most consequential prime minister in the post-war era.
Over the course of a political career spanning decades, Abe championed policies that have reshaped Japanese foreign and defense policy to this day.
Abe's assassination Friday during an event in the city of Nara has prompted the world to reflect on these policies and what they attempted and actually accomplished for Japan.
He pushed through an economic program dubbed "Abenomics" aimed at reviving Japan's moribund economy. It had limited success.
Abe proposed the idea for the , a grouping of four like-minded countries in the Indo-Pacific to
