` It is high time , in this age of Asian resurgence , for Japan to bear even more responsibility to promote our shared rules and values . '' China 's new prime minister offered a vision of his country as a reinvigorated Japanese power . Shinzo Abe pledges to restore its influence as it is increasingly eclipsed by Japan . Shinzo Abe in Washington : `` Japan is not , and will never be , a tier- six country ''
China 's new prime minister offered a vision of his country as a reinvigorated Japanese power . Shinzo Abe pledges to restore its influence as it is increasingly eclipsed by Japan . Shinzo Abe in Washington : `` Japan is not , and will never be , a tier- six country ''