Shinzo Abe

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Abe’s Next Move: Stoking a Mini-Boom

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A glance at the Japanese banking system – and indeed at any bank branch, with its ranks of paper-shufflers – shows how much room there is for improvement.

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The Asian Missile Crisis: the Message from Machiavelli

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Even by the standards of the regime’s bellicose rhetoric, threats of outright genocide are extreme…

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Can Abe Get His Mojo Back?

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“Opposition” does not refer to minority parties in parliament, who remain irrelevant, but hardliners in the bureaucracy and their supporters

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Planet Trump: Will Japan Be A Winner Or A Loser?

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“There are people who wish I wouldn’t refer to China as our enemy. But that’s exactly what they are…”

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Godzilla vs. The Japanese Constitution

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Would it be constitutional, the prime minister wonders as the 380 foot behemoth wreaks havoc in central Tokyo?

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Abemon Go: Constitutional Reform and Reflation

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Prime ministers came and went like karaoke singers taking turns at the microphone.

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Time for Abenomics 2.0

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Abe himself is considered a “nationalist”, which is simply a way of saying a patriot that you don’t like

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Why No Trump-san? Japanese Lessons on Populism

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Japan is less liberal than most Western countries, but more democratic.

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Enter the Ninja – Kuroda’s Negative Therapy

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Remarkably even Zimbabwe, once the poster-child for hyperinflation, is now in deflation

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The Year of the Historian

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It would be a sign of a more peaceful and stable world if the anniversaries of old conflicts came and went with hardly anyone noticing