WHEN Japanese first lady Akie Abe made her rounds in Washington on Friday, noticeably absent was the high-level chaperone of previous visits – America’s first lady.
Rather than Melania Trump, it was the wife of the Japanese ambassador to the United States who accompanied Akie on a visit to a local university.
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