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Shinzo Abe (born 1954) was Japan's prime minister for less than a year, from September 26, 2006, to September 12, 2007.

The first Japanese prime minister born after World War II, Abe faced problems that troubled Japanese society as a whole in the early 21st century.

Like his predecessors, he tried to strike a balance between modern ideals of transparency and Japan's tradition of closed, clubby hierarchies in business and government. And he struggled with the issues of Japanese national pride and the country's still-conflicted attitudes toward its militaristic past and its World War II–era crimes.

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Those tensions, which bedeviled a succession of Japanese leaders, brought a quick end to Abe's reign as Prime Minister.

Shinzo Abe was born in Nagato Japan, in Yamaguchi Prefecture, on September 21, 1954. His family was immersed in Japanese politics on both its paternal and maternal sides.

His maternal grandfather, Nobusuke Kishi, was a key military leader during World War