NATION| | Shinzo Abe tours Duterte's Davao home

In this photo released by Special Assistant to the President Bong Go, President Rodrigo Duterte welcomes Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to his home in Davao City on Friday, where the Japanese leader took breakfast on the second day of his official visit to the Philippines. Abe arrived in Manila on Thursday and pledged $8.7 billion worth of business opportunities, private investments, speedboats and counterterrorism equipment to the Philippines, its regional partner.

           

MANILA, Philippines — Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe took breakfast at President Rodrigo Duterte's home in Davao City on the second and final day of his official visit to the Philippines.

Special Assistant to the President Bong Go said the two leaders spent around 45 minutes in the house where Duterte offered Japan's top official biko and kutsinta, which are two types of locally made rice cakes.

Special Assistant to the President Bong Go, President Rodrigo Duterte and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in the house of the Duterte family in Davao City on Friday, Jan. 13, 2016. Bong Go/Released

Abe also tried one of Duterte's favorite dishes, monggo or mung bean soup.

Go said Duterte also took Abe to the master's bedroom where the two spent around 10 minutes. There, Duterte showed some family photos and the mosquito net he uses when he sleeps.

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There had been no renovations on Duterte's house at Doña Luisa Subdivision Phase 1 but its air-conditioning system had been improved and busted light bulbs were changed, the STAR reported. General cleaning was also carried out for Abe's visit.

Davao City is known as the "Little Tokyo" of the Philippines for its large population of Japanese who settled in the city before the Second World War.