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President Duterte shares light moment with attendees of dinner hosted by Japan’s Prime Minister Abe

(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte made dinner hosted by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe  a rather informal event, as he cracked jokes, and made attendees laugh several times. The audience first erupted in laughter when Duterte showed surprise after a female voice was suddenly heard right after he read the first few paragraphs of his prepared speech. It turns out the woman was supposed to translate into Japanese what President Duterte was saying. “Oh, sorry,” […]

Abe’s Pearl Harbor pilgrimage underlines US-Japan tie

by Jerome CARTILLIER Agence France-Presse HONOLULU, United States (AFP) -Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe travels Tuesday to Hawaii’s Pearl Harbor, the site of a sneak attack by his country that provoked America into entering World War II, to reinforce what the leader calls “the power of reconciliation.” Abe, who will be hosted by US President Barack Obama, would be the first Japanese premier to visit the wreckage of the USS Arizona, which lost 1,177 crew […]