WASHINGTON -- Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, shot and killed on Friday, will be remembered as the one who brought his country and the U.S. ever closer, former diplomats and government officials in the U.S. told Nikkei.
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Shinzo Abe made Japan an ever closer ally: ex-U.S. diplomats
Armitage, Russel and Roos tell Nikkei of assassinated ex-PM's achievements
"Mr. Abe strengthened the U.S.-Japan relationship enormously," former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage told Nikkei. © Reuters
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