Abe meets C. American journalists, academia of Japanese descent

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (R, front) shakes hands with a member of a visiting delegation of Central American journalists, academics and other experts at the Prime Minister's Official Residence in Tokyo on Aug. 27, 2015. ==Kyodo

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