Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks during a round table discussion at the Media Lab at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts April 27, 2015. REUTERS/Brian Snyder
WASHINGTON/TOKYO (Reuters) - In the 1980s when Sony and Toshiba were setting the agenda in the global TV and memory chip markets Japan was bristling with confidence as a hub of technological innovation.
Three decades later, with Japan's electronics industry in decline, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is heading to Silicon Valley - the first sitting Japanese leader to do so - in the hopes of rekindling that innovative spark.
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