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Shinzo Abe served as prime minister from December 2012 to September 2020, longer than any other postwar premier. © Reuters

GAKU SHIMADA, Nikkei deputy editor

TOKYO -- By a strange coincidence, former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe died at 67, the same age as his father, onetime Foreign Minister Shintaro Abe.

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