Word: postwar
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...coasted to the Prime Ministership last September, Shinzo Abe often spoke of his grand ambitions to remake Japan's postwar system and enlarge the country's role on the world stage. But after what is shaping up to be a catastrophic performance in Sunday's elections for the Japanese Diet's Upper House, it may be the Japanese public's turn to reshape the administration of Shinzo Abe - if his government survives...
...million advances for his next two books and was heralded as the next John Grisham. But they weren't big hits. "I was 41," he says. "I decided I was going off to write what I wanted." That was The Pursuit of Happiness, a sweeping love story set in postwar New York City. No U.S. publisher would touch it, but it thrived overseas, selling 350,000 copies in the U.K. alone. Kennedy has the gift--or perhaps curse--of transcending genres. His thrillers are romantic, his romances thrilling, and all of them bristle with literary references and big questions about...
...familiar refrain. Britain's economy, the then-Chancellor of the Exchequer would thunder, boasted sustainable growth - averaging almost 2.9% over the past decade, modest interest rates and low inflation. "Of all the major economies - America, France, Germany, Japan," Brown boasted late last year, "Britain has enjoyed the longest postwar period of continuous growth...
...That's mainstream thinking among American historians, but in Japan, where the bombings' horrific aftermath is an integral part of its postwar identity, Kyuma had just talked himself out of a job. He was swiftly vilified by all parts of the political spectrum, including fellow Cabinet members, for appearing to suggest that the atomic bombings could be viewed as historically justifiable, and not solely, as Japanese are taught, as an unforgivable war crime. Kyuma had touched the third rail of Japanese politics, incurring the wrath of the influential A-bomb victims' groups. Though Prime Minister Shinzo Abe briefly supported...
...Beyond the political shrapnel, however, Kyuma's gaffe represents a deeper setback to Abe. When he entered office last September as the youngest Prime Minister of the postwar period, Abe promised to make pacifist Japan as a normal nation, one that could defend itself and its allies on the world stage. He bumped up Kyuma's defense office to a Cabinet-level ministry, and set the revision of Japan's pacifist constitution as his signature issue. But Abe's vision of a more muscular Japan has excited few voters, who are more concerned with their pocketbooks, and constitutional revision...