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Young students of the Mindanao Kokusai Daigaku in Davao City wave Philippine and Japanese flags during the visit of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Friday, Jan. 13. ?Some 1,700 students from the school welcomed Abe. (Paulo C. Rizal/davaotoday.com)

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his wife Madam Akie Abe arrive at the Franciso Bangoy International Airport in Davao City on Thursday evening, Jan. 12, 2015. (Paulo C. Rizal/davaotoday.com)

Flags of Japan and the Philippines are placed in various locations in Davao City including in Barangay Mintal where Japan's First Lady Akie Abe, wife of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, is set to visit on Friday, Jan. 13, 2017. Barangay Mintal is tagged as the Little Tokyo of prewar Philippines where early Japanese migrants reside?d and worked in the abaca plantations around it?. (Zea Io Ming C. Capistrano/davaotoday.com)

An Urban Search and Rescue personnel from the city government watches as a fireman continues to put the fire that razed a soon to open shopping mall in Barangay Mintal, Davao City on Wednesday night, Jan. 11. The fire started around 4 p.m.(Paulo C. Rizal/davaotoday.com)

Filipino actress Monique Wilson kisses a Matigsalug child during her visit in Barangay Cabalantian in Kitaotao, Bukidnon province on Sunday, Jan. 8 for the One Billion Rising global movement to end violence against women. (Photo by Kilab Multimedia)