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Abe Poll Ratings Resume Plunge, Part 4

posted by Richard Katz on October 30, 2014

Found in Japan, categorized in Politics

Tags: Abe TPP agriculture

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Headline

Why Abe is unable to liberalize further: because it would destroy the farmers and the public would not tolerate that. This is a rationale for inaction, not a description of the of the “bold” action which Abe vowed in his September New York speech.

Abstract

Abe's falling approval ratings and the TPP stalemate.

About Richard Katz

Richard Katz is Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Council for Ethics In International Affairs, the New York correspondent for Weekly Toyo Keizai, a leading Japanese business magazine, and formerly the editor of The Oriental Economist Report, a monthly newsletter on Japan.

Mr. Katz has taught about Japan’s economy as an Adjunct Associate Professor at the New York University Stern School of Business, and as a Visiting Lecturer in Economics at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Stony Brook.

Mr. Katz is the author of two books on Japan's economic travails and has just finished a third book on reviving entrepreeurship in Japan.

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