epa03715926 Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (C) and his wife Akie (R) visit the cemetery of Japan nationals in Yangon, Myanmar, 25 May 2013. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe arrived in Yangon, marking the first such visit to the once pariah country by a Japanese premier in 36 years. Former Japanese Prime Minister Takeo Fukada visited Myanmar in 1977, when the country was still under the rule of military strongman General Ne Win. Abe is scheduled to hold talks with democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi on 25 May in Yangon, before flying on the Naypyitaw, the country\'s capital on 26 May for a meeting with Myanmar\'s reform-minded President Thein Sein. EPA/NYEIN CHAN NAING (credit:EPA時事)
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Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda (L) and his wife Hitomi Noda (C) arrive as Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh (R) look on during a welcome ceremony at the presidential palace in New Delhi on December 28, 2011. Noda Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda is in New Delhi for a visit that is expected to unveil a currency swap deal and reopen talks on a civil nuclear pact. AFP PHOTO/RAVEENDRAN (credit:AFP時事)
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Nobuko Kan (L), wife of Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan (2nd L), walks past Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper (R) as they arrive at the G20 Summit in Toronto on June 26, 2010. The leaders of the world\'s most powerful countries were to pursue talks on settling their differences over how to nurse the fragile world economy back to health. The G20 nations convened in the eastern Canadian city of Toronto on the heels of a tough-talking G8 summit, in which the world\'s major industrialized powers laid down the law to rogue operators Iran and North Korea. AFP PHOTO / POOL / Satoru Iizuka (credit:AFP時事)