epa05327808 A staff member moves panels representing the G7 leaders for the G7 Network of Health-related NGOs in Japan at the G7 NGO Area ahead of the G7 Ise-Shima Summit in Shima, Mie prefecture, Japan, 25 May 2016. Heads of state and government of the seven leading industrialized nations (G7) are scheduled to meet at the 42nd G7 summit on 26–27 May 2016 in Shima, Japan. EPA/FRANCK ROBICHON
ISE-SHIMA, Japan: World leaders began gathering in Japan Wednesday ahead of a Group of Seven summit set to be dominated by the lacklustre global economy.
The leaders were to make their way to Ise Shima, a mountainous and sparsely populated area 300 kilometres (200 miles) southwest of Tokyo, whose mainly elderly residents rely chiefly on tourism and cultured pearls.
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