Schools lock the gates after classes begin and volunteers line the routes students take. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will step down as the country’s leader due to chronic health issues. The reshuffled cabinet tied the record of 5 women ministers set by the first Koizumi cabinet. The only minister retained in his position from the previous Koizumi cabinet was Foreign Minister Taro Aso, who had been one of Abe's competitors for the LDP presidency. While campaigning to return to PM for his second stint in power in 2012, Mr Abe insisted he was “fully recovered” thanks to the arrival of an “innovative” drug.In a speech the following year, Mr Abe credited his political comeback to a medication called Asacol, which he started taking in 2009 when it became available in Japan.“If this drug Asacol had taken more time to appear on the market in Japan, it’s quite possible that I would not be where I am today,” said Mr Abe.“For that very reason, I consider it both my role and my fate to restore and enrich the lives of patients suffering from intractable illnesses.”However, the spotlight was refocused on Mr Abe’s current health condition last month, when a magazine reported that the prime minister had vomited blood, prompting a flurry of media speculation.Announcing his resignation on Friday, Mr Abe described he was told during a hospital check up in June that the condition had relapsed, with doctors currently administering new medication.We rely on advertising to help fund our award-winning journalism.We urge you to turn off your ad blocker for The Telegraph website so that you can continue to access our quality content in the future. Hanako Kuribayashi, an 11-year-old girl from Tokyo, was among the dead.

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In his speech he referred to the Japan-US Alliance as the "Alliance of Hope", promised that Japan would play a more active security and defense role in the alliance and argued that the TPP would bring both economic and security benefits to the Asia-Pacific region.In December 2015, Abe and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi signed deals in which India agreed to buy In his April speech to Congress, Abe announced that his government would "enact all necessary bills by this coming summer" to expand the In order to allow for enough time to pass the bills in the face of lengthy opposition scrutiny, the Abe cabinet extended the Diet session by 95 days from June into September, making it the longest in the post-war era.As a result of these moves, Abe faced a public backlash, and opinion polls showed that his approval ratings fell into negative figures for the first time since he returned to power in 2012, with 50 percent disapproving and 38 percent approving of the cabinet according to one Nikkei survey at the beginning of August.The security bills were finally approved 148 votes to 90 by the House of Councillors and became law on 19 September, following opposition attempts at On 18 October 2015 Abe presided over the triennial fleet review of the In December 2015, the Abe government announced the creation of a new intelligence unit, the In September 2015 Abe was re-elected as president of the LDP in an uncontested election after LDP Diet member At a press conference after his official re-election as LDP President, Abe announced that the next stage of his administration would focus on what he called "Abenomics 2.0", the aim of which was to tackle issues of This new iteration of Abenomics was met with some criticism by commentators, who argued that it was not yet clear if the first three arrows had succeeded in lifting Japan out of deflation (inflation was some way below the 2 percent target), that the new arrows were merely presented as targets without the necessary policies to meet them, and that the targets themselves were unrealistic.In December 2015, the two parties making up Abe's governing coalition agreed to introduce a reduced rate of consumption tax for food when the anticipated tax increase from 8 to 10 percent takes place in April 2017. America isn't the only country interested in seeing Japan belatedly accept full responsibility. Arkansas sheriff resigns after using racial slurs in leaked recording It’s not the first time that Japan's longest-serving premier has been forced to give up the nation’s number one political spot due to his ill health.Mr Abe, 65, abruptly resigned from his first stint as PM after just one year in power in 2007 due to the same health condition – ulcerative colitis.Mr Abe is known to have suffered from the chronic long-term condition since he was a teenager.



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