By Jesper Koll
Last week, Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe decided to step down for personal health reasons. His record-breaking long and stable grip on Japanese power has set a very high bar for his successor. On both the domestic and global stages, he'll be a hard act to follow.
However, in the immediate future, neither Japan's economic nor social policy is poised to be much affected because the successor race is primarily determined by factional strength in the Liberal Democratic Party ((LDP)) and internal power alliances. It is about personalities and personal promises, not