Prime Minister Shinzo Abe may be in New York to attend the U.N. General Assembly, but he is also busy using the visit to promote Japan as the place to do business.
With a pledge to make the nation more friendly to foreign businesses, especially ahead of next year's Group of Seven summit in Ise-Shima, Mie Prefecture, he has been urging U.S. companies to invest in Japan.
At the Invest Japan Seminar 2015 held in New York on Monday, Abe boasted about the progress he has made with his "Abenomics" economic policies, trumpeting that foreign investment in Japan increased tenfold in the year after he took office in December 2012.