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Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi arrived in Tokyo on Tuesday for talks with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, her first visit since becoming her country’s de facto leader earlier this year. She and Abe are expected to discuss economic assistance and Myanmar’s peace-building process with its ethnic minorities, according to a Japanese foreign ministry official. Japan hopes to build a better business environment in Myanmar by offering infrastructure support as more than 300 Japanese companies currently operate in the resource-rich Southeast Asian country. But the major donor has been irked by the delay in Suu Kyi’s visit, reportedly because of Tokyo’s close relationship with the former military-backed government of Thein Sein. Suu Kyi, a former political prisoner and Nobel peace laureate, has been on a whirlwind of diplomatic trips since her party took power six months ago.