Behind the Scenes of Tokyo’s Political Soap Opera
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Nov. 12 (Bloomberg) -- Shinzo Abe faces plenty ofroadblocks in his quest to revive Japan’s sluggish economy. Hismentor wasn’t supposed to be one of them.
Former Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi is easily the mostpopular Japanese politician of the last 20 years. Not sinceYasuhiro Nakasone in the mid-1980s had a Japanese leader madesuch a splash domestically and globally. Not coincidentally,both were keen reformers -- as Abe, too, claims to be.