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Japan's Shinzo Abe: Will the new prime minister boost confrontation with China and South Korea?

TOKYO — Forty-eight hours after his Liberal Democratic Party’s dramatic comeback after three years in the political wilderness, the indications were that Beijing and Seoul may have less to fear from Abe than his campaign rhetoric suggests. By restating Japan’s claims to the Senkakus, Abe was no different from his left-of-center predecessor, Yoshihiko Noda, who also raised doubts about wartime forced prostitution
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