The third arrowShinzo Abe has the best chance in decades of changing Japan for the better. He seems poised to take it DURING Japan’s Meiji restoration, which began in 1868, a group of reform-minded officials and citizens worked together to stamp out feudalism, prise open borders and push the country onto a path of rapid industrialisation. In little over ten years they reshaped Japan from top to bo
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