Feeling Triumphalist in Tokyo: The Real Reasons Nationalism Is Back in Japan
In: Foreign affairs, Band 93, Heft 3
ISSN: 0015-7120
Japan is back in the news. This time, however, the headlines are not about Japan's recession or the Fukushima nuclear crisis. Rather, in the past year, news coverage of Japan has focused on the country's assertive new tone under Shinzo Abe, who returned to the prime minister's office in 2012, five years after resigning from the post after a single year in office. Abe's economic platform -- a mix of fiscal stimulus, quantitative easing, and structural reforms dubbed 'Abenomics' -- has lifted the Japanese stock market and stirred optimism about Japan's economic prospects. Adapted from the source document.