Who endows talent, paints meditation, writes new poems.
In 1987, Akie Matsuzaki married Shinzo Abe, who was rising in Japanese politics at the time.
After that, in accordance with the consistent requirements of Japanese politics, she quit her job and concentrated on playing the role of the leader's wife.
In her 36 years of marriage with Abe, including nine years as first lady, Akie has proved with practical actions that she is by no means a traditional prime minister's wife.
Especially after Abe's death, Akie returned to the pastoral life again. Every week, I go to the fields to plow, and I also eat my own rice balls for lunch.
Why is this so? This starts with Akie daring to challenge the traditional image of Japanese politics.
A different lady of Japanese politics
Showe, surnamed Matsuzaki, comes from one of Japan's most influential confectionery companies.
She received a good education from an early age, was knowledgeable and knowledgeable, and through her own strength, worked in the largest advertising agency in the country.
Despite living in Japan's upper class, Akie has always planned her career according to her own ideas.
It was her work at an advertising agency that led him to meet and marry Shinzo Abe.
After marrying Shinzo Abe, she became Akie Abe.
At the time, Abe was already a hot figure in Japanese politics. According to the needs of reality, Zhaohui changed her career plan and began to assist her husband.
But her support for her husband was in Abe's hometown of Yamaguchi Prefecture, where she became a radio DJ and began her broadcasting career.
Later, during Abe's first term as prime minister, Akie suspended all work to focus on the duties of the prime minister's wife.
Her academic accomplishment and cheerful confidence have won the recognition of the Japanese people, but she still takes an unusual path.
The following year, she opened an izakaya restaurant called Uzud in the capital and even bought land in Abe's hometown.
Own organic rice, served in the restaurant.
After performing her duties as First Lady, she would find time to plow the fields, a habit she has preserved to this day.
Akie Abe is different from the restrained of other prime ministers' wives.
She and her husband often show a happy marriage in public, which has become a stereotypical Japanese political scene and a beautiful landscape.
Japanese media often film her and her husband holding hands, walking out of the house together, or stepping off the plane.
They also have their own social media accounts, where they often post information and updates to each other.
For example, in 2019, Zhaohui uploaded a video on social media that her husband installed a Canadian beaver-shaped door knocker for her, and she was very happy to try it.
The two have been married for many years, and although they have no children, their relationship is very stable.
A new example is set
After becoming the first lady, Akie Abe has more opportunities to speak up for women.
In 2016, she partnered with Obama's wife, Michelle, to launch the Girls' Learning initiative, benefiting 62 million girls worldwide.
Although she lives in Japan's upper class, her work and life are relatively comfortable, but she has always paid attention to the social reality of Japan.
Akie understands that although Japanese women are among the most educated women in the world, they still face many employment bottlenecks.
As a result, she became a leading proponent of "women's economics."
Advocate that women's efforts and remuneration in work should be the same as men's, equal pay for equal work.
Doing so, she believes, is crucial for the Japanese economy.
In addition to talking about women's rights, Akie openly supported Japan's progressive cause.
Sometimes, the industries or government she supports contradict the policies pursued by Mr. Abe's cabinet, but she will not back down.
For example, she became a member of the UNAIDS committee to advocate for the rights of minorities.
She is outspoken and insistent, such as Zhaohui who has also contradicted her husband on issues such as nuclear power and the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
Of course, the existence and publicization of Akie and Abe's different views raised Abe's image in China at that time.
This shows that Abe can tolerate different voices.
Interestingly, when Zhaohui expresses different opinions to her husband, she tries to use diplomatic means and choose the right time, so that she can not only express her heart, but also do not destroy the relationship between the husband and wife.
Japan's low fertility rate, as the first lady, and the fact that she has no children, has put Akie under great social pressure.
Although Abe suggested that couples adopt children to ease the pressure put on Akie by voters, she did not accept the idea because she did not have the confidence to raise children well.
After Abe resigned as his second prime minister, Akie began to fade from public view.
Last year, Abe's assassination put her back in the spotlight, and people began to pay attention to how Akie lived after Abe's death.
Akie who left Abe
With the announcement of Abe's state funeral, the Japanese people have both support and opposition.
But the photo of Akie wearing a black kimono and holding her husband's urn still drew tears of sympathy from many Japanese people.
After her beloved husband leaves, Akie is very sad and depressed, and she faces a test: what is the way forward?
But instead of decadence for a long time, she continued her husband's career, hoping that the seeds he planted for Japanese politics would eventually germinate.
She supported the LDP newcomers, participated in the by-election in Yamaguchi Prefecture, and stood for it.
Zhaohui also visited Vietnam to attend the signing ceremony of the agreement on the provision of medical services to Vietnam by Japanese medical institutions.
Later, she also moved away from her home in Tokyo, where she lived with her mother-in-law, and returned to Yamaguchi Prefecture to communicate with supporters and live seriously.
In her spare time, she would go to her husband's grave to put incense on it, clasp her hands together, and pray devotionally.
In Shimonoseki, there is the homestay "Uzu House" that Akie co-initiated.
Every week, she would take her own rice balls to the fields and cultivate them herself.
Lunch was also eaten in the field, and this idyllic life healed Zhaohui, and the once bright smile began to return to her face.
Erlang was deeply affectionate, and he cried and hated to leave his sorrow.
In a high-profile way, Akie Abe has established a first lady for the Japanese people, which is different from the tradition.
This is not to say that her ideas are different, but she uses her identity and responsibilities to show the best of Japan to the world.
Although she and her husband are eight years apart, they get along like friends and confidants, and have become a good story in Japanese politics.
Now that the person who knows her best is gone, Zhaohui returns to his pastoral life, where he spends a healing time and soothes his soul.