Put Down Your Portfolio, Mrs. Watanabe, And Get Back To Work

The latest Tankan survey conducted by the Bank of Japan reveals that business confidence in the country has scaled to its highest level in six years. That’s good news on the first anniversary of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s assumption of power on December 16, 2012. Japanese women have reason to be grateful to Mr. Abe’s government. After all it went out of its way to set up thousands of new child care centers – all towards the golden objective of getting Mrs. Watanabe and her cronies back to the grind. That’s the kind of labor shortage they have out…