Shinzo Abe Biography – Age, Career, Wife, Shinzo Abe Assassination and Net Worth

Shinzo Abe was  Japan’s longest-serving former Prime Minister.

Age

Shinzo Abe was 67 years old in 2022.

Career

Shinzo Abe is Japan’s longest-serving former Prime Minister, who served two terms as the country’s top leader. He became world famous during the closing ceremony of the Rio de Janeiro 2016 Olympic Games when he dressed up as Mario Bros to be entrusted with the organization of the event in the country’s capital.

Abe was first elected as Prime Minister in 2006 and is the youngest to hold office since the distant times of World War II, with only one year in office, he resigned from office due to what he announced as health problems.

In his second term (2012 to 2020) he spearheaded the country’s economic recovery based on three pillars: monetary easing, further stimulus of public spending and structural reform.

In August 2020 he resigned again as Prime Minister and again due to health problems, he left office in September of the same year.

On July 8, 2022 he was shot and wounded while giving a political speech in the city of Nara.

Wife

Akie Abe is a Japanese radio DJ and the spouse of politician Shinzō Abe, who served as Prime Minister of Japan from 2006 to 2007 and again from 2012 to 2020. She was 10 June 1962. She is 60 years old.

Shinzo Abe Assassination

Shinzo Abe, Japan’s longest-serving prime minister, was shot on Friday while delivering a speech ahead of a parliamentary election, with public broadcaster NHK saying a man armed with an apparently homemade gun opened fire at him from behind

The former prime minister collapsed and showed no sign of life after he was shot twice in the western city of Nara, local media reported.

Mr Abe fell to the ground and was seen bleeding after he was shot at 11:30 a.m. local time by an unidentified man with a gun, local police and firefighters said.

While speaking in front of Kintetsu Railway’s Yamato-Saidaiji Station ahead of Sunday’s upper house election, Mr Abe fell to the ground after the second shot rang out, according to the police. Mr Abe, 67, was rushed to the Nara Medical University Hospital in Kashihara City and showed no vital signs, according to the local police and emergency services.

He has been confirmed dead by CNN

Net Worth

According to various sources including ThePersonage.com and HighIncomeSource.com his wealth is estimated at around $10 million, most of it coming from his income from his public posts.

In his second term that began in 2012, Abe was elected due to his ability to lead the national economy that had been suffering during previous administrations and introduced public administration policies known as “Abenomics“. To calculate his wealth, he is considered to have an average monthly salary of over $70,000 with an annual income of over $1 million