we know who some of them are i think the sort of the the flag the standard bearer for the anthony abbate wing is she giving the shiba. former foreign minister has already indicated that he will be running the chief cabinet secretary yoshida suga is expected to be a likely candidate and there are several others so it could be quite quite an interesting election. she of course is japan's longest serving prime minister he just reached that landmark a few days ago what sort of mark has he made on the country. well it's very interesting those who are the big fans of all day and those who have greatly feared and detested him for all of these years. in some ways we're both wrong to some extent because it looks like his legacy is going to be much less than expected you know despite having such a long premiership many of the things which he did get done. the achievements that he did have have mostly unraveled during this 2020 year with the with the covert $1000.00 pandemic and the and the economic crisis so he gave a stable period in japanese the rule of government after many prime ministers who

australia primarily with the aim of countering china's influence here is more on the strategic direction abbate gave japan. shinzo abi steered japan's defense strategy in a radical new direction he pledged to revise depends pacifist post world war 2 constitution to counter changing security threats in the region. in his 1st speech to the nation he said the security of japan is not someone else's problem it is a crisis that exists right there and now. those words set the tone for japan's defense over his years as prime minister as a base sought to ward off a newly assertive china making incursions into japanese waters and expanding its territorial claims in the south china sea. north korea has also posed a nuclear armed menace with frequent missile tests to demonstrate his muscular stance abbay loosened a ban on arms exports and in 2015 his party pushed through controversial legislation for so-called collective self-defense. allowing japanese troops to engage in overseas combat with allied forces. the law drew strong opposition domestically and a later push to revise the pacifist constitution fa

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it bottomed out in april and may has been widely criticized for his handling of the pandemic and abbate sale to any leadership he did not establish early on a control tower for policies dealing with contain it in $1000.00 raked in japan critics say he delayed an effective response to save the tokyo summer olympics which had to be postponed anyway at huge economic cost and businesses have not adapted well to changed working practices when people had to move to teleworking and people had to move to more digital solutions japan was pretty unprepared for that compared to other advanced economies japan's experience is in stark contrast to neighboring south korea which of all the developed nations is predicted to come out best from the pandemic with an economic contraction of less than one percent this yeah sol has been widely applauded for an if. active early response to the outbreak without shutting down major parts of the economy it's also credited with being nimbler in adapting its economy for a world altered forever by the pandemic problem bride al-jazeera seoul a south korean pastor who

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choking up at times and with tears filling his eyes shinzo abbate japan's longest serving prime minister called it quits abbay has battled all sort of collide as for many years and several recent trips to the hospital where he had been receiving i.v. injections feel questions and concerns about his ability to continue leading the country. i apologize from my heart to the people of this nation but i am leaving my position under the coronavirus situation it is gut wrenching i want to have to look at my job before accomplishing my goals of a peace treaty with russia and before revising the college ultimate. book i thought it abbay who resigned once before because of health concerns said he failed to achieve his cherished goal of formally rewriting japan's u.s. drafted pacifist constitution and while pulling japan out of recession abbay said the economy was hit hard once again by the coronavirus pandemic after news of the resignation broke japan's nikkei average dropped more than 2 percent with selling wiping a reported 47000000000 from tokyo's 5.7 trillion market value despite meeting with

major names have been revealed but i think it would have to basically alter the strategy that mr abbate because obviously for example our immigration policy is not really good enough to cope with our aging population and you know continuous support of the economy and also a debt problem or we have to really turn around her situation because we are the most indebted nation in almost always nations and even though not you 4 percent of deaths it's because you have within we have to at least be shown to be altering the course of this especially after the mounting debt that this you know corner of our system itself of it you know they would not be able i think to sustain the same type of a strategy it would have to alter it to a little more of what i would call a bit of a painful policy which has to be imposed on the japanese public unfortunately ok i think you know great to get your thoughts thank you so much for bringing your analysis tel to syria. there's lots more still to come on the news hour including. nato and poland tell russia's president vladimir putin to stay ice of belarus is po