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Brazil’s Lula invites Japan’s prime minister to eat his country’s meat, and become a believer

Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has welcomed Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on his first visit to the country, with the two meeting in Brasilia and the South American leader pushing his counterpart to buy his beef.