William Pesek is an award-winning Tokyo-based journalist and author of "Japanization: What the World Can Learn from Japan's Lost Decades."
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Fumio Kishida during an election campaign tour in Kawasaki on June 24: Implicit in Kishida's calls for a "new capitalism" is that Abenomics was a dud. © Reuters
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