He felt that the japanese government, pre 19 93, power was too diffuse. By 20 12, he had fixed that. He had a solid group of economic policy advisers and had a clearer sense that there was no way to talk about a stronger JAPAN if it hadn't fixed its economic problem. So that was sort of the complete vision. Was that vision controversial in japan? There wa parts of it, you know, from many japanese. They look at what abe called the post war regime not as something to be embarrassed about, or something shameful, or something that prevented japan from realizing some better version of itself.

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