He is also the President of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and chairman of the Oyagaku propulsion parliamentary group. He has served as Japan's PM on previous occasion too from 2006 to 2007. He was the youngest Prime Minister of the nation post war.
On 26th September 2012 was again made the Prime Minster of Japan after under his leadership LDP won the elections. He is the first former Prime Minister to return to the office since Shigeru Yoshida in 1948.
Shinzo Abe follows Shinto and Zen Buddhism.
After studying political science at Seikei University in metropolitan Tokyo, Abe graduated in 1977.
