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	Japan Update September 21, 2018

	Abe seeks to cement  legacy but hurdles  await in his final term TOKYO -- Prime Minister  Shinzo Abe starts his third  term as the ruling party's leade  with no shortage of national  and global challenges,  including maintaining  the political capital to  tackle them. Abe is now set to leave office  no later than September 2021  under the Liberal Democratic  Party's current charter. With the end now in sight, he  will need to battle the perception  that his government is growing irrelevant as attention  increasingly shifts to the issue of succession.
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