TOKYO: United States President Donald Trump will meet Japan’s new Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi in Tokyo on Tuesday (Oct 28) for talks on commerce and safety, per week after the hardline conservative turned Japan’s first female leader and vowed to speed up a army buildup.
Takaichi is predicted to supply a bundle of US investments in a US$550-billion deal agreed this yr, together with cooperation in shipbuilding, sources aware of the preparations beforehand advised Reuters.
She may also search to please the chief of Japan’s commerce associate and safety ally with purchases of pickup vans, soybeans and pure fuel, the sources mentioned.
Whereas Trump has beforehand mentioned Tokyo isn’t spending sufficient to defend its islands from an more and more assertive China, Takaichi isn’t anticipated to decide to new defence spending targets past the two per cent of GDP pledged by her predecessors.
Trump, who met Japan’s emperor on Monday, will maintain summit talks and have lunch with Takaichi on the Akasaka Palace, earlier than heading to a significant US naval base south of the capital.
