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".