With his frequent travels to the Middle East, more than all other Japanese leaders in the past, Shinzo Abe had been destined to ineluctably play a distinctive role in redefining his country’s foreign policy approach toward the region. Essentially, when Abe returned to power for a second time in late 2012, he succeeded to subsequently establish a relatively stable and long-term government which strived to critically reappraise some highly contentious elements of Japan’s internal and external policies. Reassessing Japan’s conventional low-profile orientation to the Middle East was particularly a major objective of the Abe government because the region had turned out to be closely and dubiously connected to some pivotal political and security reforms which Abe had long pursued to achieve domestically. By primarily doubling down Japan’s political engagement in different parts of the Middle East, therefore, Abe took advantage of what his country had capitalized in the region in more recent times to especially accelerate the accomplishment of some other political and security he favored ardently.

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寻求新角色：安倍晋三领导下的日本中东政策

由于他经常前往中东，比以往所有其他日本领导人都要多，安倍晋三注定要在重新定义他的国家对该地区的外交政策方法方面发挥独特的作用。本质上，当安倍于 2012 年底第二次重新掌权时，他成功地随后建立了一个相对稳定和长期的政府，努力批判性地重新评估日本内外政策中一些极具争议的因素。重新评估日本传统上对中东的低调定位是安倍政府的一个主要目标，因为事实证明，该地区与安倍长期以来在国内实现的一些关键政治和安全改革有着密切和可疑的联系。