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

安倍晋三（Shinzo Abe）由于经常前往中东旅行，比过去的其他所有日本领导人都要多，因此注定不可避免地在重新定义日本对该地区的外交政策方针方面发挥独特作用。本质上，安倍晋三在2012年末第二次上台后，成功建立了一个相对稳定和长期的政府，努力对日本的内部和对外政策中一些极具争议的要素进行严格的重新评估。重新评估日本对中东的传统低调取向特别是安倍政府的主要目标，因为该地区已被证实与安倍长期致力于在国内实现的一些关键性政治和安全改革紧密相关。