TOKYO -- After his comeback as prime minister in December 2012, Shinzo Abe often talked about getting Japan's economy off to a "rocket start."
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"Buy my Abenomics," Prime Minister Shinzo Abe urged at the New York Stock Exchange in September 2013, but it proved a hard sell to make toward the end of his time in office.
TOKYO -- After his comeback as prime minister in December 2012, Shinzo Abe often talked about getting Japan's economy off to a "rocket start."