An Open Letter to Shinzo Abe

Dear Prime Minister: Please inform the U.S. that Japan under your watch will be open, bold and well-armed.

Updated Feb. 20, 2013 2:51 p.m. ET

Dear Prime Minister Abe:

This week you come to Washington as prime minister of Japan for the second time. Many things have changed since your last visit in 2007. The world economy cratered, as did Japan's. China surpassed Japan as the world's second-largest economy. America elected a president intent on ending the policies of his predecessor and expanding the role of government. Your party lost power after half a century and watched...

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