Critics doubt Abe-Trump meet will yield much for Abe

Tokyo

AS EVERY Japanese knows, when you travel abroad, you must bring home some omiyage - souvenirs.

But after Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's first day visiting President Donald Trump at his Florida estate, the Japanese public is wondering whether their leader, embattled at home by influence-peddling scandals, might return to Japan with the diplomatic equivalent of an "All I Got Was This Lousy T-shirt".

When Mr Trump and Mr Abe appeared before reporters in Palm Beach on Tuesday, the American president said "Japan and ourselves are locked, and we are very unified on the s…