was a Japanese

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who was the mother of Prime Minister

Shinzo Abe Shinzo Abe (21 September 1954 – 8 July 2022) was a Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan and President of the Liberal Democratic Party (Liberal Democratic Party (Japan), LDP) from 2006 to 2007 and again from 2012 to 2020. ...

, the daughter of Prime Minister

Nobusuke Kishi was a Japanese bureaucrat and politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan, prime minister of Japan from 1957 to 1960. He is remembered for his exploitative economic management of the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo in China in the 1930s, ...

, the wife of Minister of Foreign Affairs

Shintaro Abe was a Japanese politician who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1982 to 1986. He was a leading member of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). He was the father of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and part of the Satō–Kishi–Abe f ...

, and a member of the Japanese

Satō–Kishi–Abe family The Satō–Kishi–Abe family is one of the most prominent list of political families, political families politics of Japan, in Japan. Nobusuke Kishi, Kishi's brother Eisaku Satō and Kishi's grandson Shinzo Abe served as Prime Minister of Japan ...

Biography

Born on 11 June 1928, Yōko Abe was the eldest daughter of

, the widow of

, and the mother of Hironobu,

, and

Nobuo Kishi is a Japanese politician. He sat in the House of Representatives from 2012 to 2023 representing Yamaguchi’s 2nd District as a member of the Liberal Democratic Party. From September 2020 to August 2022 he served as the Minister of Defense. H ...

. - 毎索にて閲覧 Known for her

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, she was considered to be the "Godmother" of the Kishi-Abe family (a Japanese

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for three generations), and had long been the leader of the wives of members of

Seiwa Seisaku Kenkyūkai Seiwa Seisaku Kenkyūkai (, Seiwa Political Research Council), often shortened to Seiwa Kai, was a major Factions in the Liberal Democratic Party (Japan), faction within Japan's Liberal Democratic Party (Japan), Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). I ...

. She was called the "Godmother of the World of Politics" because she had many followers in politics. Yōko Abe died on 4 February 2024, at the age of 95.

Works

* 『わたしの安倍晋太郎：岸信介の娘として』（ネスコ、1992年）

Honors

Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus The Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus () (abbreviated OSSML) is a Roman Catholic dynastic order of knighthood bestowed by the royal House of Savoy. It is the second-oldest order of knighthood in the world, tracing its lineage to AD 1098, a ...

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Abe, Yoko 1928 births 2024 deaths Spouses of Japanese politicians Shinzo Abe Recipients of the Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus People from Nakano, Tokyo Parents of prime ministers of Japan Satō–Kishi–Abe family