I suppose I should've prefaced it as "For a Japanese politician", and qualified is as "exceeded my exceptionally low expectations. Pretty much all of post 2000's major politicians have been ineffective at best, if not downright incompetent.

If people actually expect someone to be able to turn around the dumpster fire that is the Japanese economy in just a few years, they're highly delusional. Much of the fault lies with the mentality in companies. I believe some PMs actually raised this point, but companies either ignored it, or entrenched their positions. I suppose one thing they could do more is encourage startups, as many of those have been performing quite well, but still..