TOKYO -- "I can build a relationship with this man," Shinzo Abe confidently told his aides after meeting U.S. President-elect Donald Trump at Trump Tower on Nov. 17, 2016. "I can't say that I was able to do so with President Obama. But with Trump, I might be able to talk quite candidly."
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