TY  - BOOK
AU  - WALSH  Bryan
TI  - Hitting his stride
PY  - 2006///
KW  - JAPAN
KW  - POLITICS
N2  - Shinzo Abe has handled his first week as Japan's leader with great aplomb.  North Korea's nuclear shocker posed a difficult trial by fire, but the Japan's youngest postwar prime minister has aced his debut on the world stage showing decisiveness and deft diplomacy that confounded critics
ER  -