Chiyoko Yamamoto works in one of the best regions in Japan — a place with one of the lowest rates of unemployment, a growing economy, and the highest level of female employment in the country.
Indeed, Fukui Prefecture should be a poster child for Abenomics — the economic model of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who called a snap general election on Oct. 22.
Yet Yamamoto, a 53-year-old textile worker, sees little benefit to her or her family from all the years that Abe has been priming the economy with monetary and fiscal stimulus. Like most workers in Japan, she's seen few signs of the healthy wage gains Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda has consistently promised.