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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has ended his weeklong visit to the United States with a tour of the University of Southern California, where he was a student in the 1970s.
 The brief visit to USC was Abe's final event in the US before he headed to Los Angeles International Airport, after a week of diplomacy and economic talks.
 USC president Max Nikias escorted Abe around the campus and presented him with a USC letterman's jacket inscribed with his name. 
Abe also met with faculty at the USC Shinso Ito Centre for Japanese Religions and Culture.
Abe's visit to USC was his first time on campus in almost 40 years, officials said. It was considered a private event and was not announced publicly in advance.
Abe had spent three semesters as a visiting student studying English and taking courses in political science, international relations and history. 
Earlier in the week, Abe addressed a joint session of Congress and was the guest of honour at a state dinner at the White House. On Thursday, he participated in a public forum at Stanford University about technological innovation. On Friday he shared his vision for strengthened economic and political ties between the two allies.
 At an earlier luncheon, Abe had said there was a "synergy across the Pacific Ocean" between the nations, and he alluded to strengthened defence ties with the US amid Japan's perpetual feud with China.
 Outside the event, about 100 people chanted and held signs demanding an apology for the sexual enslavement of tens of thousands of Asian women by Japan's imperial army during the second world war. The protesters, many of Korean or Chinese descent, shouted "Abe, liar!" and held signs reading "Mr Abe, official apology". The prime minister expressed "feelings of deep remorse over the war" during an address to Congress, but that didn't satisfy critics, who say Japan hasn't done enough to account for wartime abuses.  
Abe later appeared at a wreath-laying at the Go For Broke Monument, which honours Japanese-Americans who served in the US army during the war.
Los Angeles Times, Associated Press


Japan's Abe goes back to his student days with visit to USC

Shinzo Abe tries on a USC letterman jacket.Photo: EPA

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