Shinzo Abe has been sworn in as Japan’s prime minister ten days on from the ruling party’s comfortable victory in a snap general election.
A special parliamentary session in Tokyo on Wednesday set the seal on a contest that was billed by Mr Abe as a “referendum” on his mix of policies designed to reinvigorate the world’s third-largest economy, which has struggled since the late 1990s to emerge from a state of mild but persistent deflation.
Mr Abe claimed that he needed a fresh mandate to push back a second scheduled rise in consumption tax, after a first increase in April this year was blamed for tipping Japan into a recession in the six months to September.
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