New Rising Sun: can post-Abe Japan leave China’s shadow to lead Asia?

By the standards of any politician, Shinzo Abe – who recently announced his resignation as Japan’s prime minister – is a hard act to follow.Over four terms of office stretching back to 2006, Abe did more to raise his country’s profile and international presence than perhaps any Japanese leader since the second world war. Along the way he became the country’s longest-serving prime minister, its youngest since the war, ushered in revolutionary economic policies that still bear his name, broached…

from South China Morning Post https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3100313/new-rising-sun-can-post-abe-japan-leave-chinas-shadow-lead-asia