TOKYO: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Friday Japan will accept 150 Syrians over five years, treating them not as refugees but as exchange students.

The plan will empower Syrian youths whose educational opportunities were lost amid the escalating warfare in their country.

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