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- ISBN 9781805260370
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 26 Oct 2023
- Publisher: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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Shinzo Abe entered politics burdened by high expectations: that he would change Japan. In 2007, seemingly overwhelmed, he resigned after only a year as prime minister. Yet, following five years of reinvention, he masterfully regained the premiership in 2012 and, until his resignation in 2020, dominated Japanese democracy as no leader had done before.
Abe inspired fierce loyalty among his followers, cowing Japan’s left with his ambitious economic programme and support for the security and armed forces. He staked a leadership role for Japan in a region being rapidly transformed by the rise of China and India, while carefully preserving an ironclad relationship with Trump’s America.
The Iconoclast tells the story of Abe’s meteoric rise and stunning fall, his remarkable comeback, and his unlikely emergence as a global statesman who laid the groundwork for Japan’s survival in a turbulent century.
Tobias S. Harris is Deputy Director of the Indo-Pacific Program at the German Marshall Fund of the United States. He is a regular commentator on Japanese politics for broadcast media and major world publications, which have included 'The New York Times', 'The Washington Post', 'The Wall Street Journal' and 'Foreign Policy'.
