TOKYO: Less than six months ago Prime Minister Shinzo Abe appeared poised to stay in power until 2021, becoming Japan’s longest-serving leader and cementing a coveted place in history.

Now, the humbled hawk finds himself fighting for his political life or, in the words of one observer, scrambling to crawl out of a “hell hole”.

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