Shinzo Abe, the Japanese prime minister, is the grandson of Nobusuke Kishi, once the top industrial bureaucrat of wartime Japan. Imprisoned by the Americans as a war criminal in 1945, Kishi was released without trial at the beginning of the Cold War, and was elected Prime Minister as a conservative in 1957.
但由于东亚政治仍高度王朝化，从身世领域解读同样可能取得良好的效果。日本首相安倍晋三是岸信介的孙子，岸信介曾是战时日本顶级的工业官僚。1945年岸信介以战犯身份被美国人囚禁，冷战开始后未经审判即被释放，并于1957年以保守党身份当选首相。