Angela Merkel ruled Germany for over a decade and was praised by Asahi Shimbun and its aligned intellectuals, while Shinzo Abe, who led Japan for only four years, achieved remarkable economic results yet faced constant denial. This essay exposes the contradiction through objective facts of tenure and policy outcomes.

If one replaces her with the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan, it should become instantly clear how correct my argument is.
2016-11-23.
The following is an essay that was transmitted worldwide on 2016/7/9.
Merkel became leader of the CDU in 2000, and in November 2005 she became Chancellor of Germany.
If one replaces her with the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan, it should immediately become clear how correct my argument is.
Prime Minister Abe assumed leadership of the current administration only four years ago, in 2012.
Merkel has continued to serve as Chancellor of Germany since 2005.
That is to say, she has held the party leadership for sixteen years and the chancellorship for eleven years.
Of course, the majority of the Japanese people do not know this fact accurately.
During this period, it goes without saying that she firmly positioned Germany as the de facto leader of the EU and significantly increased its influence in international society.
Shinzo Abe, on the other hand, has governed for only four years.
That within these mere four years he implemented economic policies that enabled Japan to escape from over twenty years of deflation and produced concrete results is nothing short of astonishing.
Nevertheless, Asahi Shimbun and the so-called intellectuals aligned with it, who have not only continued to praise Merkel or Germany but have also insisted that Japan should learn from Germany, have consistently denied Prime Minister Abe’s entirely correct policies.
German newspapers represented by Süddeutsche Zeitung, even if they are foolish enough to disparage Japan from faraway Germany, a completely foreign country, and instill anti-Japanese sentiment in about half of their population by aligning with Asahi Shimbun and receiving its favors, would never do something as foolish as disparaging their own Chancellor to force her out mid-term or to prevent the maintenance of a long-term administration.
Most Japanese people harbor no anti-German sentiment whatsoever.
This is because no one knows anything about Germans in the first place.
To be continued.