JAPAN will provide a ¥1-trillion (P430 billion) aid package to the Philippines over the next five years, visiting Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Thursday, as the two countries pledged to strengthen economic relations.

President Rodrigo Duterte welcomed the Japanese premier in Malacañang, underscoring the “solid and strategic

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