Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe resigned unexpectedly Wednesday. The given reasons were health problems and extreme exhaustion, and Thursday Abe checked into a hospital. But Abe's administration was plagued by scandals from the beginning. Journalist Tim Hornyak, who lives in Tokyo, talks to Madeleine Brand about whether the prime minister's hospital check-in was a face-saving move.
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