2022/07/09
BBCインタビュー記事
Professor Yuichi Hosoya, who advised Shinzo Abe's government on security and foreign affairs, has remembered him as "very gentle and kind - unlike the media image".
"He was a very sensitive person," Prof Hosoya, who teaches history at Keio University in Tokyo, tells the BBC. "He always tried to listen to others and he was very flexible."
Crediting Abe with making Japan an "international community", Prof Hosoya says he "fulfilled promises" which is why leaders trusted him.
On China, he adds Abe understood that Japan's "national interest lay in better relations" there. "In 2006, he visited Beijing before he visited Washington DC because he knew that at that time the first priority was to repair the damage between the two countries."（記事を読む）
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