Takaichi has pledged to revive Shinzo Abe’s economic vision of high public spending and cheap borrowing.
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Abe was Japan’s longest-serving post-war PM. His legacy, while considerable, is mixed.
Suga has a strict work ethic, rising at 5am each day. He will need to work hard to hang on to the prime ministership at a bumpy time for Japan.
Abe restored mild economic growth to Japan and enhanced the country’s position on the global stage, but his handling of the coronavirus pandemic was widely criticised.
How did a man once suspected of dubious far-right sympathies end up on the threshold of a record third term?
There’s nowhere quite like Japan – or at least, that’s how the Japanese government tells it.
The Bank of Japan is trying yet another measure to fight deflation but the economy shows no signs of responding.
Business Briefing: Abenomics fails to address Japan’s true woes
The Japanese government needs to improve job security and address income inequality as "Abenomics" fails to deliver.
Shinzo Abe’s government (now in its second term) has consistently been vocal about Japan’s national defence.
Japan has higher debt levels than Greece and yet it doesn’t need international bailouts. Why?
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s decision to call a snap election for December 14 comes after what has been a rather bad week for him. Japan has slipped back into recession for the first time since…
It may seem politically counter-intuitive for a prime minister to seek an early election just when the economy has gone into recession. But following his return to Japan from the G20 Leaders’ Summit in…
The decision by Japan’s prime minister, Shinzo Abe, to call a snap election barely two years into a four-year term demonstrates a degree of political flexibility other world leaders can only envy. Abe…
In the second quarter of this year Japan recorded its largest GDP contraction since the earthquake and tsunami hit in 2011. This time, the single most important reason for the downturn is technical: demand…
Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced Tuesday a significant increase in the country’s consumption tax and unveiled a ¥5 trillion ($54.5 billion) stimulus package to mitigate the higher levy’s negative…
Japanese PM Shinzō Abe has a problem, and he might end up killing an awful lot of frogs to solve it. Shares are up in Japan, but everything else has flatlined: kick-starting the stubbornly moribund economy…
Amid the doom and gloom of recent world economic reports, Japan has provided a rare source of good news. In the first quarter of the year, its economy grew by 0.9%, indicating an annual growth rate of…
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