Next week,Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso is to become the first foreign leader to visit the new president at the White House.

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From time to time, he would visit the Judge in his big stone house.

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But the White House says he chose Ghana for his first presidential visit to Africa south of the Sahara because of what he considers its strong democratic system.

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Though he hasn't been onstage lately, he has returned to the Met Opera House to visit rehearsals for the orchestra and chorus.

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Afterward, the two left the White House to visit the State Department, where the President planned to reiterate again his solidarity with America's diplomats stationed around the world.

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They made their way from office to office, finally paying a visit to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

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