TOKYO -- Japan is encouraging its companies to work with African startups, hoping to raise its profile on a continent often called the global economy's "last frontier" and offer a counterweight to Chinese influence there.
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Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe attends the sixth Tokyo Conference on African Development, held in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi in August 2016. © Reuters
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