An Abenomics lesson on politics for Uncle Sam

Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced on Oct. 1 that he had decided to go ahead with a 3 percentage point increase in the country’s sales tax to 8 percent from April 2014. The increase, which parliament had agreed on before a change in political leadership in December last year, is expected…

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An Abenomics lesson on politics for Uncle Sam