Shinzo Abe
Statesman and former Prime Minister of JapanWikipedia
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Sep 11, 2026
PJ VogtHOST
Japan may have been an attractive place to visit, but it was too expensive.
PJ VogtHOST
But then, in the early 2010s, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe returns to office.
PJ VogtHOST
And Abe does something very consequential.
PJ VogtHOST
He deliberately drives down the value of the yen.
Helen ThomasGUEST
Uh, George Osborne did that with Mark Carney, people may remember in the UK.
Helen ThomasGUEST
In Japan, there was, uh, Abenomics under Shinzo Abe.
Helen ThomasGUEST
He appointed his guy as governor.
Helen ThomasGUEST
So not unusual, quite normal for a new leader to want, uh, an, as a fresh outlook from their central bank because, of course, fiscal and monetary policy, uh, are s- very important how they interact.
Yevgeny PavlovGUEST
But the Japanese side did act in a rather hostile way towards Russia.
Yevgeny PavlovGUEST
I think it's interesting that the current prime minister is often mentioned as the disciple of the former prime minister Shinzo Abe, who really, really tried to have a working relationship with Russia.
Yevgeny PavlovGUEST
And here we see basically, I think, the Japanese politicians exploiting these issues of contradictions.
Yevgeny PavlovGUEST
From their perspective, they have a territorial dispute with Russia.
ZacHOST
Adam says, though, Elon has managed to meme the birth rate back up to celebrate.
ZacHOST
Elon Musk should put up the Shinzo Abe meme, but with him on it in Times Square.
ZacHOST
Elon said, I've certainly been trying hard.
ZacHOST
Sabine Hossenfelder says, I was offered money to scare you of AI, and I'm not the only one.
ManjunathGUEST
don't know, it may help to improve the geopolitical equation.
ManjunathGUEST
Because like Shinzo Abe after his demise, I haven't yet seen any great engagement between the two foreign office, like at least it was not publicized in the news, we may be having some collaboration with them.
ManjunathGUEST
Of course, they gave us Maruti Udyog Limited in 1983, the first 800 rolled out.
ManjunathGUEST
So the Japanese presence in India is always there, even in the motorcycles, Yamaha and Suzuki, they are very diligent, and they have this one thing which they work on.
Josh WingroveGUEST
And all of them have been forced to bend the knee.
Josh WingroveGUEST
Trump, arguably like no other leader more than Shinzo Abe, the late Japanese prime minister.
Josh WingroveGUEST
And Japan had to make, I think, a $550 billion slush fund pledge, essentially a direct investment into the US.
Josh WingroveGUEST
Huge number.
Carl ZhaGUEST
Japan, U.S. has been pushing Japan to remilitarize for the past decades.
Carl ZhaGUEST
And this suited the interest of the Japanese elite because the Japanese, the right wing of the Japanese ruling party, LDP, starting from even before Shinzo Abe, they have always wanted to, quote unquote, normalize Japan.
Carl ZhaGUEST
And for them to normalize Japan means Japan must have a military.
Carl ZhaGUEST
Right now, what Japan has is called self-defense force, which was allowed under the peace constitution that was imposed on Japan after World War II, which says Japan cannot have a military.
Carl ZhaGUEST
You can only maintain a self-defense force for the purpose of self-defense of Japan.
Carl ZhaGUEST
But the Japanese politicians, starting from Shinzo Abe to the present Prime Minister Takayuchi, they felt know japan hasn't been a normal country because they weren't allowed to have a normal military so they have always wanted to scrap the the peace constitution particularly in article 9 which says japan shouldn't deploy military abroad so they tried to repeal that but the the peace constitution is actually very popular within japan because a lot of the japanese public rightly recognize is because japan has diverted resource away from making war to the internal development that's what made the japanese miracle after world war ii possible So unable to repeal the Article 9 of the peace constitution, they decided to reinterpret it.
Carl ZhaGUEST
They reinterpreted to say, well, okay, well, in case of existential threat to Japan, we still get to deploy our military.
Carl ZhaGUEST
Prime Minister Takahashi said, well, the Taiwan issue is an existential issue for Japan.
Fergal SchmudlachHOST
You know, you have that branch system.
Fergal SchmudlachHOST
Today that Asotaro, the fixer, one of the old boys together with old Abe Shinzo, you know, he's maybe the last of that old guard who's still around.
Fergal SchmudlachHOST
Asotaro married his sister to his university-era roommate who was Prince Mikasa.
Fergal SchmudlachHOST
And so the Mikasanomiya branch of the Japanese imperial family has these daughters, these nieces of Asotaro.
Lee EllisHOST
For example, in their book Superforecasting, Tetlock and Gardner recount a major miss by Bill Flack, one of their superforecasters, in a tournament to predict the odds of various geopolitical events.
Lee EllisHOST
The question at hand was whether Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe would visit the controversial Yasukuni Shrine, a site revered by conservative nationalists like Abe because it reveres Japan's war heroes, but that also often brings international blowback due to the inclusion of accused war criminals among the honor's dead.
Lee EllisHOST
After strategically weighing the pros and cons for Abe, Flack decided that the bad outweighed the good and predicted that Abe would make the sensible choice not to go.
Lee EllisHOST
Abe went.
Lee EllisHOST
When Flack went back to evaluate where he had gone wrong, he realized that he had failed to account for Abe's own nationalist sentiments.
Lee EllisHOST
He used basic empathy, putting himself in Abe's shoes and answering the question, were I in Abe's position, would I visit the shrine? The problem is Bill Flack isn't Shinzo Abe.
Lee EllisHOST
For one, my guess is that Bill Flack is probably not a Japanese nationalist and had a degree of detachment from the issue that Abe simply did not.
Lee EllisHOST
Flack got so caught up considering the surrounding geopolitical circumstances and weighing the pros and cons that he totally overlooked the fact that an entirely different person with different preferences was the one actually making the decision and that for Abe, the reverence he had for his nation's history outweighed any potential geopolitical repercussions.
Tommy VietorHOST
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Tommy VietorHOST
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said he did so because of Abe's ties to the Unification Church.
Tommy VietorHOST
The shooter's mom gave away all her money to the church.
Tommy VietorHOST
Um, that was a big thing with the Moonies.
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