The cool, conditioned air washes around me and I feel my nerves instantly calm. Cakes in one hand and a hastily scribbled map crumpled in the other I give myself an internal pep talk before pressing a fist again the café door and giving it a push. I run a hand through my hair carefully tucking it behind my ears and check my reflection in a shop window before I pull myself up to my full height and take a deep breath. When I finally arrive at the Black Ship I feel completely exhausted. What would happen if each of the boys immediately recognised the MC and admitted how they’d been feeling since she left? Here’s what I thought (Expect this to be sickly sweet and potentially poorly written) I decided to start with a series of headcanons for the wonderful men of Voltage’s ‘Dreamy Days in West Tokyo’. It was Mr Abe Shinzo who made the greatest efforts of anyone, anywhere on earth to maintain and improve an open international order that values freedom, democracy, human rights, and the rule of law and forms a dependable roof that enables the security of Japan, the region, and indeed the entire world.Over the last few days I have been having a stab at flexing my creative muscles by trying my hand at some headcanon writing for some of my favourite Voltage characters. In so doing, you succeeded in maintaining Japan's national security at an even higher level. The path to getting the Legislation for Peace and Security, the Special Intelligence Protection Act, and other laws passed was extremely arduous, but you overcame it all and brought those bills to enactment. Your multi-layered diplomacy fostered favorable relations with every region in the world without exception.īy concluding an Economic Partnership Agreement and a Strategic Partnership Agreement with Europe and pursuing straightforward diplomacy that was decisive to a degree heretofore unseen, you built deep cooperative relations one after another with the Asia region, the Eurasia region, the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America and the Caribbean region. You not only markedly strengthened our ties with the United States and dramatically reinforced Japan-US deterrence but also enhanced our cooperation with India and Australia to form the "Quad" framework, based on reasoning you had long promoted. You who advocated "the confluence of the two seas" deepened that concept further, cultivating it to become the framework of a "Free and Open Indo-Pacific" that encompasses many countries and includes massive numbers of people. Until you once again took office as prime minister in the closing days of 2012, you disciplined yourself to become metal thoroughly forged, far stronger than before. But we know very well what was to follow. That illustration is entirely fitting for a person who began his working life in the steel industry.įor someone like yourself, there must have been nothing more trying than having to end your tenure as prime minister after only one year. Instead, you claimed, a prime minister is forged metal, which takes its shape only by being struck time and time again. (© Sankei)Īt around that time in a Diet session you fielded the question, "What, exactly, characterizes a prime minister?" to which you replied that a prime minister is not a metal casting that can be made by simply pouring molten iron into a mould. PM Abe answering at a Q&A session on CP-TPP Q&A in Diet. That message to the Japanese people you delivered as our youngest post-war prime minister was simple and clear.īy elevating the Defense Agency to the Ministry of Defense, thereby enabling it to formulate its own budget, enacting the National Referendum Law, and building major bridges towards constitutional reform, you extricated the nation from its post-war regime. Let us take pride in being Japanese and discuss what we should do for the future of Japan. What will showcase that potential fully is our courage, our wisdom, and our efforts. It continues to hold tremendous potential. You were always emphatic that our nation Japan is a country blessed with stunning natural beauty, a rich history, and unique culture. Now I fondly recall watching excitedly and with anticipation in those days as you, serving as the flag bearer for our generation, took on fundamental challenges facing our nation that had remained unchanged since the war, first one and then another. In 2006, you became the prime minister at the age of 52, as Japan's first prime minister born after the war. To fulfill your last wishes, I will do everything in my power to enable the abductees to return to their families, who long to welcome them home. I can hardly imagine the regret you must have felt in not having ultimately succeeded in bringing the abductees back to Japan.
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