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(16 Jun 2013)
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STORYLINE:
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe arrived at Belfast International Airport on Sunday evening, ahead of the G-8 summit of world leaders.
The two-day summit starts on Monday at a golf resort on a peninsula near the Northern Irish town of Enniskillen.
British Prime Minister David Cameron will serve as host for US President Barack Obama and the leaders of Germany, Italy, Canada, France, Russia and Japan.
At the top of the agenda: New co-operation to fight tax evasion and increase transparency among governments.
Also on the table will be how much help to give to rebels in Syria, and a push for lower trade barriers between the United States and the European Union.
Abe has promised to explain to fellow G-8 leaders his strategies for fostering long-term growth.
Over the past few months, the yen has dropped from about 80 yen to the dollar in October to about 94 yen now - as the Abe administration tried to bring an end to the country's two-decade stagnation.
Japan's central bank has been pumping money into the economy in the hope of stoking inflation - the country has suffered from falling prices for much of the past 20 years, which has halted growth.
One consequence of the new inflationary approach has been the sharp fall in the value of the yen against other countries' currencies.
This has made Japanese goods cheaper to the rest of the world, which has boosted exports.
But the lower yen has provoked concern among German officials.
Their exporters compete head to head with Japan's in major markets.
Abe is scheduled to meet separately with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Abe is likely eager to do some explaining after financial markets see-sawed since he presented his initial, broad-brush reform plans last week.
Worries about the effectiveness of these measures, combined with the uncertainty over what the US Federal Reserve may do, has pushed Japan's Nikkei index into bear-market territory with a 20 percent-plus fall.

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