By the time Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced his resignation last week, he had presided over a remarkable and unexpected opening up of Japan to the world
You wouldn’t have picked Shinzo Abe as globalization’s future champion when he became prime minister of Japan in 2012.
He was a proud nationalist intent on rekindling Japanese patriotism, loosening the shackles on the country’s military, and playing down its past aggression. No free-market ideologue, he criticized his predecessor’s negotiations to join the Trans-Pacific Partnership, an ambitious trade pact with the U.S. and 10 other Pacific nations.To Read the Full Story
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