by Sarah Cowgill | Jul 9, 2022 | Columns, Opinion, Politics
Editor’s Note: From the Back Forty is Liberty Nation’s longest-running and most popular weekly column. Capturing the truth each week from heartlanders in flyover states, LN gives voice to the hard-working Americans otherwise ignored by the coastal elites. Heartlanders...
by Mark Angelides | Jul 8, 2022 | Articles, International, Opinion
While giving a speech in Nara, near Osaka, former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was shot and killed by a lone gunman. Early reports on Abe’s condition were muddled, but it has now been officially announced that he succumbed to his injury. According to local...
by Andrew Moran | Sep 19, 2020 | Articles, Economic Affairs News, Good Reads, International, Politics, Social Issues
Japan will say sayonara to the Shinzo Abe era and welcome Yoshihide Suga with a kon’nichiwa. After eight years as prime minister, Abe will now officially resign, giving way to Suga to be his successor. On day one, Suga will grapple with many challenges on...
by Andrew Moran | Sep 7, 2020 | Articles, Economic Affairs News, International, Politics
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe recently announced that he is stepping down due to his deteriorating health condition. The longest-serving prime minister in Japanese history will stay on as head of state until a successor is chosen. With the Abe era coming to an end, it...
by Andrew Moran | Nov 16, 2018 | Articles, Economic Affairs News, International
Japan’s economy is a lifeless corpse. In the 1990s, Tokyo propped up zombie banks: institutions that are solvent in name only. In the aftermath of the Great Recession, Japan ensured these companies remained open. Today, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is presiding over a...