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Summary: As the so-called Islamic State gains power, we ask: could it ever be considered a ‘state’? Then we head to Japan to ask whether Shinzo Abe has squandered his opportunity to transform the country. We also hear summer reading suggestions from our Tokyo bureau chief and leaf through the newspapers in Istanbul.