<p class="title">Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has cancelled a four-country foreign trip as the death toll from flooding and landslides caused by record rains hit 100, the government's top spokesman said Monday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Abe had been expected to visit Belgium, France, Saudi Arabia and Egypt from Wednesday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">He cancelled the tour to the countries "to concentrate on disaster-management measures such as rescue and construction works", Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga told reporters.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Abe is now expected to visit some of the areas worst affected by the flash flooding and landslides as early as Wednesday, according to local media.</p>.<p class="bodytext">He had been due to start the trip in Belgium on Wednesday, where he was to sign a massive free trade agreement with the European Union.</p>.<p class="bodytext">EU President Donald Tusk offered to hold that meeting in Tokyo instead.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"My heartfelt condolences and words of European solidarity with the people of Japan and PM," Tusk wrote on Twitter.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"In view of the tragic circumstances, we are ready to move our EU-Japan Summit from Brussels to Tokyo next week."</p>
<p class="title">Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has cancelled a four-country foreign trip as the death toll from flooding and landslides caused by record rains hit 100, the government's top spokesman said Monday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Abe had been expected to visit Belgium, France, Saudi Arabia and Egypt from Wednesday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">He cancelled the tour to the countries "to concentrate on disaster-management measures such as rescue and construction works", Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga told reporters.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Abe is now expected to visit some of the areas worst affected by the flash flooding and landslides as early as Wednesday, according to local media.</p>.<p class="bodytext">He had been due to start the trip in Belgium on Wednesday, where he was to sign a massive free trade agreement with the European Union.</p>.<p class="bodytext">EU President Donald Tusk offered to hold that meeting in Tokyo instead.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"My heartfelt condolences and words of European solidarity with the people of Japan and PM," Tusk wrote on Twitter.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"In view of the tragic circumstances, we are ready to move our EU-Japan Summit from Brussels to Tokyo next week."</p>