«It is undeniable that there are plenty of small inconveniences for foreigners who wish to live and work in Japan,» says William Tsutsui, dean of the College of Humanities and Sciences at Southern Methodist University and an expert in
Japanese economic history.
In 2008, during a BBC One This Week interview between Abbott, Michael Portillo and Andrew Neil about who was
history's worst dictator, Abbott said about the Chinese dictator Mao Zedong: «I suppose some people will judge that on balance Mao did more good than harm... He led his country from feudalism, he helped to defeat the
Japanese and he left his country on the verge of the great
economic success they are having now.»