August 4, 2017

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe yesterday dumped conservatives and embraced critical voices in a Cabinet revamp he hopes will stem a decline in public support after a series of scandals and missteps.

Abe, in office since December 2012, has pushed a nationalist agenda alongside a massive policy effort to end years of on-off deflation and rejuvenate the world’s third-largest economy.

However, he has seen public support rates plummet in the past few months over an array of political troubles, including allegations of favoritism to a friend in a business deal, which Abe denies.

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