ON DECEMBER 26th the new prime minister of Japan, Shinzo Abe, unveiled his cabinet. Mr Abe, an arch-nationalist, promises to focus on turning round an economy enduring its third recession in five years. He says he has learnt from his disastrous first term as prime minister, in 2006-07, when economic policymaking was distracted by needless spats over wartime guilt, and by a gaff-prone cabinet.
The question is whether Mr Abe (pictured, centre) can keep the government on-message. In picking his 19-member cabinet he has given reason to doubt that, in the long run, he even wants to.
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