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Shinzo Abe: He Will Be Missed

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Shinzo Abe: He Will Be Missed
Pedestrians are silhouetted against a large public video screen showing an image of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in the Akihabara district of Tokyo, Japan, on July 8, 2022. Abe was shot and killed in the city of Nara. Toshifumi Kitamura/AFP via Getty Images
Grant Newsham
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Statesmen come along only once in a great while. Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who was assassinated on July 8 in Nara, Japan, was a statesman.

Grant Newsham
Grant Newsham
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Grant Newsham is a retired U.S. Marine officer and a former U.S. diplomat and business executive with many years in the Asia/Pacific region. He is a senior fellow with the Japan Forum for Strategic Studies (Tokyo) and Center for Security Policy and the Yorktown Institute in Washington, D.C. He is the author of the best selling book “When China Attacks: A Warning to America.”
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