Just now, I was reading a news article about the economic plight of young Japanese who migrated to Australia on "working holidays". The comment section was full of negative statements from Japanese netizens, many of them expressing disapproval of the policies of the previous administration under the late former prime minister Shinzo Abe (the so-called "Abenomics"). At the same time I was listening to "The Girl from Ipanema" as covered by Andrea Bocelli. As my eyes alighted on the word "Abe", Andrea sang "... a beleza que existe..."
