Same race, same horseShinzo Abe has called a snap poll to consolidate power; voters should give him one more chance WHEN Shinzo Abe made the case, in late 2012, that he was the man to save the economy and revive Japan, voters handed him a landslide general-election win. This week, just two years on, the prime minister dissolved the Diet’s lower house and declared a snap election for December 14th.
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