The hawk’s strategy

Badly shaken yes, but by no means on its knees. That’s Japan following December’s re-election of Shinzo Abe, leader of the centre-right Liberal Democratic Party (LDP).

Just two years after the Tohuku earthquake and the nuclear disaster of Fukushima, and Japan is endeavouring to make its come-back on the chessboard of international geopolitics, showing unexpected assertiveness. The number one objective? To return to the pre-recession conditions of economic growth, ending fifteen years of virtual zero growth for its domestic economy. And the motto of the past 2 years, since the events of 11th March 2011 – Ganbare nihon or ‘Onward Japan’ – may have played a part.

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