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Childhood

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As the Executive Assistant to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr. Shintaro Abe

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First attendance at the House of Representatives

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With Ms. Condoleezza Rice, then the US National Security Adviser

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With his wife, Mrs. Akie Abe, during a visit to India

Photos presented by the Shinzo Abe Office


1954 Born
1977 Graduated from the Department of Political Science, Faculty of Law, Seikei University
1979 Entered Kobe Steel, Ltd.
1982 Executive Assistant to the Minister for Foreign Affairs
1993 Elected for the first time to the House of Representatives
1999

Director of the Committee on Health and Welfare, House of Representatives
Director of the Social Affairs Division, Liberal Democratic Party (LDP)
2000

Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary, Second Mori Cabinet
Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary, Reshuffled Second Mori Cabinet
2001

Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary, Reshuffled Second Mori Cabinet
Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary, First Koizumi Cabinet
2002 Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary, Reshuffled First Koizumi Cabinet
2003 Secretary General, LDP
2004 Acting Secretary General and Chairman of Reform Promotion Headquarters, LDP
2005 Chief Cabinet Secretary, Reshuffled Third Koizumi Cabinet
2006 90th Prime Minister of Japan