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Shinzo Abe entered politics burdened by high expectationschange 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.
Table of Contents
Note on Subjects Name xv
Acknowledgements xvii
Abbreviations xxiii
Family Tree xxvi
1 The Last Heisei Prime Minister 1 (6)
2 The Birth of a Dynasty 7 (18)
3 The World That Made Shinzo 25 (16)
4 The Iconoclast 41 (18)
5 Champion of the Abductees 59 (16)
6 The Weirdo 75 (14)
7 Abe's Rise 89 (20)
8 The Successor 109 (20)
9 Inferno 129 (20)
10 Abe in the Wilderness 149 (18)
11 The Comeback 167 (20)
12 "There is no Alternative" 187 (22)
13 Building a New Japan 209 (18)
14 The Slow Boring of Hard Boards 227 (20)
15 Alliance of Hope 247 (22)
16 The Gamble 269 (20)
17 In Search of a Legacy 289 (22)
18 A New Japan 311 (16)
Afterword 327 (10)
Notes 337 (86)
Index 423