   I like this.      Prime Minister Abe and the LDP party are
back in control of Japan.  Will the second act be any different
from the previous time? Japanese politics has been a merry-go-
round with the same actors and same results.  In 2006, Prime
Minister Abe and the BOJ ended a five year quantitative easing
program and raised lending rates while the Japanese economy was
still in a nascent recovery.  PM Abe ended up resigning during
the financial crisis, and the Nikkei Index ended up losing
roughly 50 percent its value while the yen appreciated roughly
40 percent against the dollar during the past five years.  Macro
Overview  The Japanese economy is currently in its third
recession in five years.  Nominal GDP growth has been roughly 0%
the past 20 years.  As recently as last November the Nikkei
Index had loss 75 percent of its value from its 1989 peak. 
Japan faces multiple secular headwinds including a rapidly aging
population, and the highest debt-to- GDP ratio in the world at
250 percent of GDP.  Late to