Inside a hushed hall in Tokyo on a recent afternoon, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi of Japan stood before a giant portrait of her mentor, Shinzo Abe, the slain Japanese leader, and bowed.

近日的一个下午，在东京一座安静的大厅里，日本首相高市早苗站在她的恩师、遇刺身亡的日本领导人安倍晋三的巨幅画像前，鞠躬致敬。

It had been four years since Mr. Abe, a giant in Japanese politics and the country’s longest-serving prime minister, was shot and killed while giving a speech outside a train station. Ms. Takaichi, his protégé, had come to pay her respects — and to vow to carry on his vision. She told the crowd of right-wing politicians, activists, journalists and business leaders that she sometimes still imagined him sitting on the couch of the prime minister’s office.

安倍晋三是日本政坛巨头，也是该国在任时间最长的首相。他在车站外发表演讲时遇刺身亡，至今已过去四年。作为他的门生，高市早苗前来致哀，誓言继承他的遗志。她告诉在场的右翼政治人士、活动人士、记者和商界领袖，她有时仍会想象他坐在首相办公室的沙发上。

“I could never fill Prime Minister Abe’s shoes; my days are filled with nothing but criticism when compared to him,” she said. “Even so, I want to be a fighter politician like him. I tell myself that I must be.”

“我永远无法取代安倍首相；与他相比，我的每一天都充斥着批评，”她说。“即便如此，我也想成为像他一样不停奋战的政治家。我告诉自己，我必须做到。”

2014年，高市早苗（中）与安倍晋三在东京合影。

Since winning election nine months ago, Ms. Takaichi, Japan’s first female prime minister, has frequently leveraged her ties to Mr. Abe to rally support for her nationalist agenda, often referring to him and his policies in major speeches.

自九个月前赢得选举以来，日本首位女首相高市早苗频繁利用她与安倍的关系来为她的民族主义议程争取支持，并经常在重要演讲中提及他以及他的政策。

She has hailed his vision of a more muscular Japan that is a driving force for strength and stability across Asia. She has invoked his legacy to call for greater military spending and the establishment of Japan’s first intelligence agency since World War II. She has dropped his name while wooing foreign leaders such as President Trump and Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India.

她赞扬安倍晋三关于建立一个更强大的日本并使之成为整个亚洲力量与稳定驱动力的愿景。她援引他的政治遗产，呼吁增加军事开支，并建立日本自二战以来的首个情报机构。在争取特朗普总统和印度总理莫迪等外国领导人的支持时，她也曾提及他的名字。

Yet Mr. Abe remains a divisive figure in Japan because of his break with decades of postwar pacifism; his support for changing how the country’s World War II-era history is taught in schools; and a rise in economic inequality during his tenure. His killing, by a 41-year-old man who was protesting the ruling Liberal Democratic Party’s ties to the Unification Church, a fringe religious group, prompted a range of reactions. While many people were outraged, some sympathized with the assassin, noting his difficult childhood. Others said that a state funeral for Mr. Abe was a waste of money. (His assassin, Tetsuya Yamagami, was sentenced to life in prison earlier this year.)

然而，安倍晋三在日本仍是一个引发分歧的人物，因为他打破了数十年的战后和平主义；支持改变学校对二战时期历史的教学方式；在他的任期内，经济不平等现象出现加剧。他被一名41岁男子刺杀，该男子以此抗议执政的自民党与边缘宗教团体“统一教会”的关系。这一事件引发了一系列反应。虽然许多人感到愤怒，但也有人理解凶手，同情他艰难的童年。还有人说为安倍晋三举行国葬是浪费金钱。（今年早些时候，刺杀他的凶手山上彻也被判处终身监禁。）

Despite Mr. Abe’s complicated legacy, Ms. Takaichi has emerged as one of his chief defenders, hailing him as a transformative leader who elevated Japan’s stature on the global stage.

尽管安倍晋三留下的政治遗产错综复杂，但高市早苗已成为他的主要捍卫者之一，她称赞安倍晋三是一位具有变革精神的领导人，提升了日本在全球舞台上的地位。

This triumphant account of Mr. Abe’s tenure has been on display recently across Japan, including at a sold-out exhibition by the Shinzo Abe Digital Museum, an organization founded by Mr. Abe’s allies in business and government. The exhibition featured more than 100 objects from his life, including the microphone he was holding when he was shot on July 8, 2022, in the ancient city of Nara, Ms. Takaichi’s hometown.

最近，对安倍任期的这种颂扬式叙述在日本各地展示，其中包括“安倍晋三数字博物馆“举办的一场门票售罄的展览，“安倍晋三数字博物馆“由安倍在商政两界的盟友创办。该展览的展品包括他生前的100多件物品，包括2022年7月8日他在古城奈良遇刺时手里拿着的麦克风，那里也是高市早苗的故乡。

2022年7月安倍晋三遭枪击时手中握着的麦克风。

Mr. Abe’s widow, Akie Abe, said during a visit to the exhibition in Nara on Sunday that her husband’s message “has been entrusted to” Ms. Takaichi.

安倍的遗孀安倍昭惠周日参观在奈良举行的展览时表示，她丈夫的使命“已托付给”高市早苗。

Same Playbook, New Challenges

相同的策略，全新的挑战

Ms. Takaichi, who met Mr. Abe in the 1990s when they were both rising politicians and later served in his cabinet, has sought to portray herself as the inheritor of his legacy, at a time when Japan is facing rising tensions with China, Russia and North Korea.

高市早苗在20世纪90年代结识安倍晋三，当时两人都是冉冉升起的政治新星，她后来还在安倍内阁中任职。在日本与中、俄、朝三国紧张局势不断升级之际，她一直试图将自己塑造成安倍晋三政治遗产的继承人。

“She’s embracing what Abe did and running with it,” said Sheila A. Smith, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.

“她正在全盘接受安倍晋三的一切，并以此为基础继续前进，”美国外交关系委员会高级研究员希拉·史密斯说。

The question now, analysts say, is whether Ms. Takaichi can adapt Mr. Abe’s vision to new challenges. Among them:

分析人士表示，现在的问题是，高市早苗能否将安倍晋三的愿景进行调整，以适应新的挑战。其中包括：

• Beijing is rapidly expanding its military and economic influence in Asia, and has led a monthslong campaign against Ms. Takaichi to punish her for a comment she made in support of Taiwan, which China claims as its territory.

• 北京正迅速扩大其在亚洲的军事和经济影响力，并针对高市早苗发起了一场持续数月的攻势，以惩罚她发表的支持台湾的言论。中国声称台湾是其领土。

• Japan’s economic outlook has grown more complicated as the country grapples with inflation for the first time in decades and a stubbornly weak yen.

• 随着日本几十年来首次面临通货膨胀，加上日元持续疲软，该国的经济前景变得更加复杂。

• The country’s demographic decline is also accelerating, hurting the economy, causing labor shortages and undermining defense priorities like military recruitment.

• 日本的人口衰退也在加速，这拖累了经济，导致了劳动力短缺，并削弱了征兵等国防优先事项。

Mieko Nakabayashi, a political science professor at Waseda University in Tokyo, said Ms. Takaichi was clinging to Mr. Abe’s playbook while ignoring new realities. She pointed to Ms. Takaichi’s support for expansionary fiscal policies, which some analysts say could exacerbate inflation.

东京早稻田大学政治学教授中林美惠子表示，高市早苗一味沿袭安倍晋三的策略，却忽视了新的现实。她指出，高市早苗支持扩张性财政政策，一些分析人士称这可能会加剧通货膨胀。

“Her popularity depends on Mr. Abe’s legacy,” Ms. Nakabayashi said. “Her biggest selling point is that she is trying to realize everything that Mr. Abe wanted to do, at whatever cost.”

“她的支持率依赖于安倍的政治遗产，”中林美惠子说。“她最大的卖点在于，无论付出什么代价，她都致力于实现安倍想要做的一切。”

在日本与中俄朝紧张局势不断升级之际，高市早苗一直试图将自己塑造成安倍晋三政治遗产的继承人。

Ms. Takaichi worked for Mr. Abe during his first stint as prime minister in 2006, and during his second term, which began in 2012. She rose to the powerful position of minister for internal affairs and communications.

高市早苗曾在2006年安倍晋三首次担任首相期间以及始于2012年的第二个任期内为他工作。她一路晋升，升任总务大臣这一要职。

During that time she became a fierce defender of his policies, including efforts to revise Japan’s Constitution to unfetter its military, and his economic program, which emphasized cheap cash and government stimulus efforts.

在那期间，她成为安倍晋三政策的坚定捍卫者，包括旨在修改日本宪法以解除军队束缚的努力，以及强调低成本资金和政府刺激措施的经济计划。

“I was deeply drawn not only to his qualities as a politician but also to his character as a human being,” Ms. Takaichi said of her work with Mr. Abe, in a letter on display at the new exhibition.

在此次新展览中展出的一封信中，高市早苗如此描述她与安倍晋三共事的经历：“我不仅深深地被他作为政治人士的品质所吸引，也被他作为一个人的人格魅力所吸引。”

Tobias Harris, the founder of the advisory firm Japan Foresight and the author of a book on Mr. Abe, said that it remained to be seen whether Ms. Takaichi had fully grasped the lessons of his tenure. He said it was notable that she identified with Mr. Abe’s fighting spirit, given that Mr. Abe’s success in his second term came in part from tempering those impulses.

咨询公司“日本远见”的创始人、一部有关安倍晋三书籍的作者托比亚斯·哈里斯表示，高市早苗是否充分吸取了安倍晋三任期内的教训目前还有待观察。他说，值得注意的是，她认同安倍晋三的战斗精神，而事实上，安倍晋三在第二任期的成功部分源于他克制了那些冲动。

“We have seen her willingness to bulldoze her opponents over and over again,” Mr. Harris said. “But as Abe learned, there is a cost to pay for that.”

“我们一次又一次地看到她不惜碾压对手的意愿，”哈里斯说。“但正如安倍所意识到的那样，这种做法是要付出代价的。”

安倍晋三回顾展入口处的参观者。

The Shinzo Abe Digital Museum raised more than $338,000 from individual donors for the exhibition. On a recent day, visitors left notes on a wall with messages such as “You were our hope!” and “We will carry forward your mission.” A shop sold Abe-themed calendars and playing cards that included scenes of him golfing with President Trump.

“安倍晋三数字博物馆”从个人捐助者那里筹集了超过33.8万美元用于此次展览。前不久的一天，参观者在墙上留下了诸如“您曾是我们的希望！”和“我们将继承您的使命”之类的留言。一家商店出售以安倍晋三为主题的日历和扑克牌，其中包括他与特朗普总统打高尔夫球的场景。

The exhibition became a gathering spot for his supporters, drawing nearly 7,000 visitors in Tokyo and Nara, including more than a half dozen of Ms. Takaichi’s cabinet officials.

展览成为安倍晋三支持者的聚集地，在东京和奈良吸引了近7000名参观者，包括超过六名高市内阁官员。

Mr. Abe’s supporters are hopeful about Ms. Takaichi, though they said she would face different challenges than Mr. Abe, including disruptions to the energy supply, foreign wars and political volatility in the United States.

安倍晋三的支持者对高市早苗抱有希望，尽管他们表示，她将面临与安倍晋三不同的挑战，包括能源供应中断、外国战争以及美国的政治动荡。

Fumiyo Kato, 48, who runs a weather data company in Tokyo, cried during a recent visit to the exhibition as she viewed Mr. Abe’s personal artifacts: a childhood notebook, a portrait of his father, a wedding photo. She said that Ms. Takaichi appeared to be carrying on his legacy, but it was too early to say whether she would succeed.

48岁的加藤文代（音）在东京经营一家气象数据公司。最近参观展览时，她看到安倍的个人物品——一本童年笔记本、一张他父亲的肖像、一张结婚照——不禁流下了眼泪。她说高市早苗似乎继承了他的遗志，但现在断言她是否会成功还为时过早。

“Abe was a great man,” she said. “He can’t be easily replaced.”

“安倍是一位伟人，”她说。“他不能被轻易取代。”