U.S., Japan first ladies: both unconventional yet poles apart

By Yeganeh Torbati WASHINGTON (Reuters) - When Japanese first lady Akie Abe made her rounds in Washington on Friday, noticeably absent was the high-level chaperone of previous visits - America's first lady. Rather than Melania Trump, it was the wife of the Japanese ambassador to the United States who accompanied Akie Abe on a visit to a local university, a Japanese embassy official said. In 2007, she was treated to a tour with Laura Bush to George Washington's home, Mount Vernon, and in 2015, sh