Abe aims to secure Japan’s world status
It is barely four weeks since Shinzo Abe stepped into Junichiro Koizumi’s oversized geta (sandals) and became Japan’s prime minister. As successor to the most charismatic and, by some measures, most successful Japanese leader in decades, he seemed doomed to play second historical fiddle.
Shinzo Abe transcript
Read the full transcript of an interview with Shinzo Abe, Japanese prime minister, by the FT’s David Pilling.
These being early days, he could still go down in history as less than consequential. Yet in Mr Abe’s first month
