It was all about Abe in 2014. With few intra-party challengers, a divided and weak opposition, and a huge victory in a December snap election gamble, Japan’s Prime Minister Abe finds unusual scope to lead the nation both domestically as well as internationally in his chosen course of “proactive pacifism.”

Keywords:
Japan, “proactive pacifism, ” security policy, international relations, election, party politics, Liberal Democratic Party
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