Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks during the “Bahrain – Japan Business Meetings” in the Bahraini capital Manama, on August 25, 2013. The prime minister of energy-poor Japan is in the oil-rich Middle East this weekend in his latest push to promote nuclear technology exports, a spokesman said, despite growing problems at the crippled Fukushima plant. AFP PHOTO/MOHAMMED AL-SHAIKH