WASHINGTON -- Japan's former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will be looked back on as one of the most significant leaders in modern Asia, said Kurt Campbell, the Indo-Pacific coordinator for the White House National Security Council.
Abe, Japan's longest-serving postwar prime minister, was shot and killed on Friday while campaigning for his party. While Abe resigned in 2020 because of ill health, he remained a power broker within the ruling Liberal Democratic Party and an influential force in policymaking.
