"Despite being portrayed as a “right-wing nationalist”, Abe was always a globalist creature, who “sought to increase Japan’s international profile by expanding ties with NATO, the EU, and other organizations beyond the Asia-Pacific region.” He also “attempted to centralize security policy in the Prime Minister’s office by creating the Japanese National Security Council to better coordinate national security policy, and by ordering the first National Security Strategy in Japan’s history. Based on the American body of the same name, the law to create the NSC was passed in November 2013 and began operating the following month when Abe appointed Shotaro Yachi as Japan’s first National Security Advisor.”
He was, in short, a man of the world machine."
https://voxday.net/2022/07/08/clown-world-loses-another-clown/
Not with direct conflict but Abe figured out a way to have Japan help with logistical stuff & skirt their constitution. But even that was pretty unpopular and made him enemies.