Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is beefing up Japan’s role as a provider of infrastructure and finance in Asia just as the Chinese-backed Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank prepares to make its first loans. Japan aims to halve the time it takes to get a development loan and make it easier to obtain funds, Abe told business leaders on Saturday on the sidelines of an Association of Southeast Asian Nations meeting in Kuala Lumpur. He reiterated that Japan and the Asian...
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