RealClearWorld: Japan’s Glacial Ascendance

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    For such a historic transition of power, the handover from Shinzo Abe, Japan’s longest-serving and most powerful postwar prime minister, to Yoshihide Suga was always going to be short on drama. – Phillip Orchard Full story

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