With Shinzo Abe stepping down, whoever succeeds Japan’s longest-serving prime minister will be sure to face daunting economic challenges.
Markets will be keen to see if the next administration will stick to Abenomics, his namesake economic program consisting of aggressive monetary easing, flexible fiscal spending and structural reform.
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