The Group of Seven summit meeting last week in Ise, Mie Prefecture, chaired by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, has raised suspicions about Japan's political agenda.
A small group of Abe's aides might have secretly revised Japan's official view of the world economy and helped Abe achieve his own domestic political goal.
During the G-7 session on the world economy held May 26, Abe reportedly showed four charts to other G-7 leaders in a bid to portray the world as facing a looming economic crisis.