As Japan enters a new imperial era, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe faces the challenge of an ageing population, a heavy debt burden and the threat of a rising China. FT chief foreign affairs commentator Gideon Rachman says issues of international resilience and domestic revival are closely connected

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