Abe, seeking new spark for Japan high-tech, heads to Silicon Valley


  • World
  • Thursday, 30 Apr 2015

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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