Reviving his "Abenomics" script, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe emphasized that his government and party will continue to focus on achieving fiscal consolidation and across-the-board prosperity at the Liberal Democratic Party convention on Sunday.
Abe devoted more than half of his 20-minute speech at the 81st annual gathering trumpeting the successes of his radical economic strategy and citing encouraging data on gross domestic product, jobs data and winter bonuses.
"Numbers do not lie," Abe told the 3,300 party members in attendance. "We succeeded in blowing away the thick, black cloud that was hanging over Japan two years ago."
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