TOKYO (AP) — While her husband chased golf balls with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Japan's premier course, U.S. first lady Melania Trump focused on a more iridescent sort of orb: pearls. Abe's wife, Akie, greeted the first lady with a bow as she arrived at the Mikimoto Pearl flagship store in Tokyo's glitzy Ginza shopping district on Sunday. Mrs. Trump, a former fashion model who once sold her own line of jewelry on the QVC television shopping channel, made no purchases. Hundreds of people ogled the store from the street, which is turned into a pedestrian walkway on weekend afternoons. Mikimoto's founder, Kokichi Mikimoto, is said to have invented cultured pearls in 1893.

Source: Economic Times November 05, 2017 06:00 UTC