Abe calls for 'amicable' and 'stable' China relationship

Abe has tried to improve relations with China, but progress has been slow over Japan’s perceived failure to atone for its wartime aggression

Then he hasn't really tried, has he? Abe goes all right wing nuts and expects that relations with China will improve?? Idiot.

"Abe has tried to improve relations with China, but progress has been slow over Japan’s perceived failure to atone for its wartime aggression"

Progress has been slow because China as no intention of lifting their anti-Japan policy and whining about WWII, it plays a crucial role in China's territorial and military expansion plans, it's adversarial strategic role vis-à-vis the United States and it helps keep domestic order by inciting nationalism. Any idiot could see that.

@OssanAmerica Any idiot could see that.

And anyone willing to look objectively would easily see that China has firmly established itself worldwide while Japan still glories in its 1980's successes and the US continues spending trillions chasing its imagined demons.

As long as Japan's gerontocracies are in charge and won't budge from 1980's thinking and as long as the gerontocracies use the right wing for support, don't expect things in Japan to get better. Those of us who live here and want Japan to prosper want to see change from within.

Abe said Japan’s economic fundamentals were “rock solid,”

... to giggles, in the audience?

“In the event that due to external factors, if our economy is going to experience major confusions, then we will have a flexible economic management policy in place so that we will be prepared.”

Not sure what is so different now to the prior 20-odd years leading up to this Abe administration, which as we all know weren't so great either.

This guy is talking too much.

In the US overnight he told a bunch of investors that his "first, second and third major challenges were economics, economics and economics." (Either this statement, or his English speech made my two-year old laugh again at breakfast this morning)

Abe's failure to act seriously does indeed give the impression that economics is a challenge for him.

He has advisory panels which are telling him to implement structural reforms here and there, but it isn't getting done.

Reporters need to be asking him why this is, and what is he going to do about it.

PTownsendSep. 30, 2015 - 11:49AM JST @OssanAmerica Any idiot could see that. And anyone willing to look objectively...

Anyone who supports a totalitarian one party dictatorship where the citizens have no say in choosing their government, can be prosecuted for expressing opinions counter the to official government position like "advocating democracy", and is on a military and territorial expansion program that has alarmed all of their neighbots...is hardly objective.

@OssanAmAnyone who supports a totalitarian one party dictatorship

Who's supporting that? Another great leap of logic. I'm acknowledging China's current status.

"Abe said Japan’s economic fundamentals were “rock solid,”

How many economists agree with that?