Shinzo Abe, the front-runner to become Japan’s next prime minister, is helping drive an almost tripling of foreign bond buying by local investors as he calls for central bank steps to fuel inflation and weaken the yen. Net purchases of overseas debt climbed 285 percent to 15.2 trillion yen ($185…

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Abe Spurs Tripling of Overseas Debt Buying on Yen: Japan Credit
