New PM Shinzo Abe
New Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe is turning to be a focus not only in Japan but also in the world.
He was elected as prime minister in 2006 but fell into an illness and resigned in the middle of accusation in 2007. At the time he was in his early 50s.
Mr. Abe was elected again as president of the conservative LDP last September to win the general election held three months later, in December, to take over power from the labor-union based DPJ and become the 96th prime minister of Japan, though he was once the 90th. Such a comeback case is rare in Japan especially in competition for the premiership.
Mr. Abe was from one of politically very notable families in Japan. His grandfather was also prime minister of Japan; Nobusuke Kishi assumed prime minister office from 1957 to 1960, though this ex-elite bureaucrat of the Empire of Japan had been a state minister of the Cabinet led by prime minister/army general Hideki Tojyo who ordered the Pearl Harbor Attack. Kishi was even arrested as one of war criminals by the US forces after WWII.
When he was the 90th prime minister of Japan in 2006, LDP politician Mr. Shinzo Abe was labeled as the worst type of Japanese nationalists who had ever assumed the premiership of Japan. The New York Times and other Western Media which were especially compassionate with China expressed their discomfort against Mr. Shinzo Abe. Those Media claimed that Mr. Abe neglected responsibility of the Empire of Japan for tragedies in Asia and the Pacific region during WWII.
Mr. Abe and the LDP intend to revise the Japanese Constitution which imposes strict or too idealistic peace-loving administrative stances and practices on the Japanese Government. As this Constitution was based on a draft worked out by Americans appointed by General MacArthur who led the Allied occupation forces stationed in Japan after WWII, the conservative or nationalistic camp in Japan want to abolish it and establish a new constitution to be drafted 100% by Japanese.
However, what Japanese voters want PM Abe to do is not such a political reform concerning nationalism or traditionalism. It is economy.
People understand that the socialistic DPJ having been in charge of the government failed in economy while they had power between September 2009 and December 2012. Now as the Abe Cabinet clearly holds up their goals, at least for the time being, of combating with deflation continuing since 1990s. Japanese see Mr. Abe as a leader putting more emphasis on the economy than on nationalism.
Japanese businesses and exporters, including Toyota, which have suffered the too-high yen in these years welcome PM Abe, while Mr. Abe has strongly requested cooperation of the Bank of Japan, which has quickly resulted in a trend reversed in the exchange market and high stock prices in the Tokyo Stock Exchange.
So, if China and North Korea should not challenge Japan with their military capacity, there would be no problems in East Asia, though China is still stupidly pretending to be trying to illegally invade the Senkaku Islands of Japan in the East China Sea.
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