The assassination of Shinzo Abe final July despatched shockwaves all through Japan, and observers are nonetheless making an attempt to make sense of how the nation’s longest-serving prime minister met such a bloody finish.
But the world of Japanese political literature strikes shortly, and a brand new posthumous work plainly titled “Shinzo Abe: A Memoir” hit cabinets this month. Currently accessible solely in Japanese, the bestseller relies on roughly 36 hours of interviews that Abe accomplished with three Yomiuri Shimbun journalists, leading to 440 pages of revelations.