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The Burden of Japan; Shinzo Abe faces a tough balancing act: keeping his conservative base happy, charting a new, moral foreign policy--and finally facing up to the past.
Byline: Christian Caryl
It's been a rocky six months for Shinzo Abe. Ever since he became Japan's prime minister in September, he's struggled to buoy his plummeting popularity amid mishaps and scandals. But this month he got help from an unexpected quarter: Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao, who came to Tokyo to warm the two countries' frosty relations. Wen's visit, payback for a trip to Beijing Abe made shortly after coming to office, has boosted Abe's approval rating by 4.3 percent in the past month (to 44.2 percent, according to the Kyodo news agency). And it points to the one way Abe may be able to bail out his government. Though he's failed to articulate any sort of coherent domestic program, an increasingly assertive foreign policy may prove Abe's salvation.
At least, he seems to hope so. Abe plans to build on Wen's visit by heading to Washington and Camp David next week, where he'll ...
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