From "The Demon of Manchuria" to "Abenomics," how much influence did the Abe family have on Japan?"

No one expected that on the third day after the mysterious death of OPEC Secretary-General, former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was suddenly attacked, and after two gunshots, Abe fell to the ground and never got up again.

Abe, 68, Japan's longest-serving prime minister, has served as prime minister four times, including three re-elections. When he first sat on the prime ministership, at the age of 52, he set a new record in Japanese politics and became the youngest prime minister in Japan, and when he was attacked, he was conducting speech activities, helping party candidates to help elect, and no doubt still active in politics.

Abe can achieve such a great influence, inseparable from the strong family power behind him.

In Japan, the emperor is hereditary, and the shrine's Miyaji, the abbot of the temple, the actor of Kabuki, and the president of a large company are all hereditary.

In Japanese politics, it is said that it is an election, but in essence it is hereditary, and several large families take turns to sit on the throne, and the Abe family is typical.

Abe's mother, Yoko Abe, was called Yoko Kishi before marriage, and Kishi Yoko's father, Nobusuke Kishi, and his uncle Eisaku Sato, were both prime ministers.

Kishi Nobusuke is not good-looking, and he basically has to hang up when he goes to the big chaebol for an interview.

However, his brain was so good that in 1917, Kishi Washisuke was admitted to the Faculty of Law of Tokyo Imperial University, which was equivalent to stepping into Japanese politics on one leg, and after graduation he went to the Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce, and later transferred to the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, where he worked for 15 years, from ordinary clerk to director of public works.

After that, there was civil strife in the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Industry, and Kishi Nobusuke immediately resigned and ran to northeast China, and Kishi Nobusuke blew "Manchuria supremacy" every day when he was in Japan, saying that the fertile resources of northeast China's land were rich, which allowed Japan to get rid of poverty and develop into a powerful mainland empire.

At that time, there were already a large number of Japanese militarist fanatics in the territory of "Puppet Manchukuo", and its representative figures were Yoshisuke Kakegawa, president of Manchuria Heavy Industries, Hideki Tojo, chief of staff of the Kwantung Army, Naoki Hoshino, director of the Puppet Manchurian General Affairs Department, and Hirotoshi Matsuoka, president of the South Manchuria Railway Company.

Together with the new Minister of Industry, Nobusuke Kishi, these 5 people are collectively known as the "Manchurian 5 Giants".

In this way, Kishi Nobusuke became Hideki Tojo's right-hand man, and got a new nickname, "Demon of Manchuria". He frantically sucked blood in the northeast, opened many monopolies, shipped minerals and agricultural products from the northeast back to Japan, and also planted poppies in the northeast to produce opium and sold them to Guannei in China.

In addition to robbing money, grabbing resources and drug trafficking, he also has a share in the 731 business.

In 1939, Kishi returned to Tokyo, Japan, and joined the cabinet of Japanese Prime Minister Nobuyuki Abe, and for more than four years, he served in the Minai Cabinet, the Konoe Cabinet, and the Tojo Cabinet.

In 1944, seeing that Japan's war was close to defeat, Kishi Nobusuke suddenly changed his posture and confronted Hideki Tojo every day, finally forcing Hideki Tojo to resign. It was this decision that saved his life.

In 1945, Kishi Nobusuke and Hideki Tojo, and a number of other High-Ranking Japanese officials, were classified as Class A war criminals, and kishi was released the day after Hideki Tojo and seven others were executed.

Why?

He denounced Hideki Tojo as a "tainted witness" and sent Hideki Tojo to the gallows, so the Americans released Kishi Nobusuke.

Not only did he go unpunished, but he also continued to be active, drawing in large numbers of former Japanese military and government officials.

In 1953, Kishi was elected to the House of Representatives of Japan and returned to politics.

In 1955, Kishi became one of the leaders of Japan's Liberal Democratic Party. In February 1957, Kishi became president of Japan's Liberal Democratic Party, and was naturally elected prime minister of Japan, and also appointed many war criminals as officials, and his cabinet was known as the "Cabinet of War Criminals".

With the support of the Japanese right and listening to the Americans, Kishi had a good relationship with Chiang Kai-shek:

Because Chiang Kai-shek sent Japanese soldiers back to China at that time, he did not demand economic compensation from Japan to China. Even, because the civil war began after the end of the War of Resistance, Chiang Kai-shek hired many Japanese officers as advisers.

But no one in politics can always be smooth sailing.

In early 1960, Kishi signed the New Japan-U.S. Security Treaty with U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower.

This time, there was a strong backlash from the Japanese people, which led to massive demonstrations, and Kishi Nobusuke stepped down in June 1960 and ceded his seat to Isamu Ikeda. In July, Ikeda held a cocktail party to celebrate his appointment, and Kishi Shinsuke was present to congratulate him, but he was assassinated.

That night, Aramaki, a member of Japan's far-right organization Daiwakai, entered the reception and approached Kishi Nobusuke as he was leaving, stabbing Kishi with a knife.

Why would the right-wing Kishi Nobusuke be assassinated by the far right?

Because Kishi nobusuke defected to the United States, he was regarded as a traitor by the far right.

Ironically, in '79, Kishi received the United Nations Peace Prize.

After the assassination, Kishi Shinsuke was much more low-key, but he had the support of the Americans, still controlled Japanese politics, and tried to get his younger brother Eisaku Sato to succeed him, and he also married Abe.

Originally, her daughter Yoko Kishi had been interested in politics since she was a child, but when a woman could not ascend to power in Japan, she married Shintaro Abe and became Yoko Abe. Kishi Nobusuke had his son-in-law, Shintaro Abe, his secretary long ago, and from his time as foreign minister to prime minister, Abe Shintaro has been with him and has been trained as a future prime minister.

Shintaro Abe also promoted Junichiro Koizumi, but unfortunately he did not have the life to become prime minister, and pancreatic cancer was diagnosed in 1989 and died in 1991. When Junichiro Koizumi left office, he hand-picked Abe Shinzo to succeed him, when Abe Washinzo was only 52 years old, and many bigwigs in Japanese politics opposed it, but Yoko Abe went out to visit the big guys one by one, and finally succeeded in helping his son to the throne, so he became the youngest prime minister in Japan.

One family has produced three prime ministers, so Yoko Abe has been called a "living witness of Japanese politics" by Japanese politicians.

Shinzo Abe came up and made a lot of moves. When he first became prime minister, he broke the tradition of the Japanese prime minister's first visit to the United States and visited China, and as a result, both Japan and the United States gave him various envoys, and then he said that he was ill and stepped down.

After taking office as prime minister for the second time, he turned around and nodded to the Americans in various ways, not to mention the president, and when he saw a petty officer, he also bent over.

He actually has the same heart as his grandfather, Kishi Nobusuke, and when he has nothing to do, he goes to worship ghosts, and when he is in office, he also goes when he leaves office.

Then he also argued on the issue of comfort women, questioning resolution 121 on the comfort women, denying recognition of the comfort women issue and whitewashing the crime of aggression.

During his tenure, Mr. Abe also revised history textbooks to glorify the history of aggression, and added two criteria for censorship of social science textbooks —not to overemphasize specific events, and to base the presentation of textbooks on government decisions, in principle. According to this principle, any comfort women and the Nanjing Massacre can be mentioned without mention.

Every time he did these things, China and South Korea protested solemnly, but people still went their own way.

At the end of last year, Mr. Abe also said that if something happens to Taiwan, it means that Japan has something to do, and it is even more equal to something about the Japan-US alliance.

After this statement was released, China made solemn representations to the Japanese side.

But Mr. Abe said it was a "very honorable" thing to be protested by the Chinese side, and that "I was criticized for my political participation and was immune to criticism."

The Abe family has deep ties to Taiwan, and Shinzo Abe's brother, Nobuo Kishi, the third son of Shintaro Abe, was passed on to Kishi Nobusuke's eldest son, Kishi Nobukazu, as his adopted son. Kishi Nobuo is Japan's Defense Minister and president of the Japan-Taiwan Youth Federation of the Japanese Diet, and has deep contacts in Taiwan.

After the Russo-Ukrainian War, Abe once again reiterated his views.

Taking the pro-US route to the outside world is not good with China and South Korea.

So what about Japan, and how is he governing?

Abe's first term ended relatively shortly, and after he took office again, he proposed a Abenomics, and the big move was to vigorously loosen, release water to devalue the yen, and increase exports.

Abe's policy proposals were soon "resisted" by the Bank of Japan. Under Abe's plan, the central bank should adopt a more aggressive quantitative easing policy and set an inflation target of 2%. However, then-Bank of Japan Governor Shirakawa Kataaki opposed the plan and deliberately adopted a delaying strategy.

Then, Shirakawa went down, Abe replaced his own kuroda Higashihiko, and quantitative easing progressed smoothly. Abe then launched a massive public investment totaling 20 trillion yen.

It's a bit like learning from Roosevelt's New Deal, where government investment drives GDP to boost employment. The short-term effect is remarkable, driving the Japanese economy to grow positively for six consecutive quarters.

Moreover, Mr. Abe has opened up the agricultural market and announced an economic stimulus package that includes the establishment of private special economic zones, cutting corporate taxes, and encouraging women to take up employment. It even forced enterprises to raise wages and promote pensions to enter the market.

The effect is there, but there are many side effects, the Japanese wage increase is very small, compared with the price of a cup of water, the people are bitter, the aging fertility rate decline and other issues, none of them have been solved. Some have criticized that some of his earlier commitments — such as drastically increasing the proportion of women in management and government — have not been fulfilled at all.

Instead, the size of Japan's national debt has reached a new high for six consecutive years, from 708 trillion yen in 2012 to 1241 trillion yen by the end of 2021. That's nearly three times Japan's GDP, which equates to 9.9 million yen in debt for every Japanese person.

Issuing bonds is cool for a while, and he is not responsible for repaying debts.

When Tokyo's bid for the Olympic Games was successful in 2013, Mr. Abe was as excited as a child, saying he was "happier than being prime minister." It is hoped that the Tokyo Olympics will serve as a thread for Japan's economy and shake off the deflation of the past 20 years. As a result, in 2020, it encountered the new crown black swan, and the Tokyo Olympics did not make money, and it became a big loss of money.

In addition, Shinzo Abe called on the Japanese people to have babies, but he was always sprayed because he did not have a baby himself.

In the end, Mr. Abe, despite his record as two prime ministers — Japan's youngest prime minister when he took office and Japan's longest-reigning prime minister — could not stop him from collapsing as soon as he left office.

Last year, at a meeting of the House Budget Committee, Kishida personally acknowledged that Japan's GDP has been "injected" in recent years: construction industry data has been exaggerated, indirectly exaggerated GDP data.

He's not admitting his fault, and the problems with these data are all during Abe's 2012-2020 administration.

It should be remembered that a month before this budget meeting, the Hosoda faction (Seiwakai), the largest faction of the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan, met, and Shinzo Abe rejoined the faction and became the chairman of the faction, and the Hosoda faction was renamed the Abe faction.

Abe is still in The Japanese political arena, and he still goes around giving speeches and activities, canvassing for votes for Abe's people to see if he wants to do it later.

Therefore, Kishida Fumio emphasized the data injection at the meeting, which was to openly throw the pot and step on Abe Shinzo by the way.

After the assassination, Kishida Nobuo no longer had to worry about Abe's threat to him.

This article originated from Big Cat Finance