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TOE Alert: Election Likely to Buttress Abe - for a while
posted by Richard Katz on November 26, 2014
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Headline
A Nikkei poll taken just after the announced of a snap election shows that those who approve of Abe number just 5 percentage points above those who disapprove.
Abstract
The ongoing failures of Abenomics will continue to erode his support; the latest polls show that the margin approval over disapproval has eroded to 5-7 percentage points, depending on the poll.
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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