{"id":63276,"date":"2024-04-12T14:37:47","date_gmt":"2024-04-12T05:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/apr\/12\/joe-biden-japan-meeting-fumio-kishida-ferdinand-marcos-donald-trump-election"},"modified":"2024-04-12T14:37:47","modified_gmt":"2024-04-12T05:37:47","slug":"while-biden-and-kishida-exchange-praise-in-washington-japan-is-asking-what-if-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=63276","title":{"rendered":"While Biden and Kishida exchange praise in Washington, Japan is asking \u2018what if Trump\u2019?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite warm words from the US and Japanese leaders during their summit this week, back in Japan the spectre of a second Trump White House looms large<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/joebiden\">Joe Biden<\/a> was effusive in his praise for Japan and its \u201cbold\u201d prime minister, Fumio Kishida, during a state visit that took place this week amid new and growing security threats in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/asia-pacific\">Asia-Pacific<\/a>, wars in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/ukraine\">Ukraine<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/gaza\">Gaza<\/a>, and months of political uncertainty ahead for both leaders.<\/p>\n<p>The first ladies, Jill Biden and Yuko Kishida, exchanged gifts and hugs, there was talk of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/apr\/10\/joe-biden-us-japan-white-house-state-dinner-fumio-kishida-yuko\">cherry blossoms<\/a> and a state banquet menu inspired by Japanese cuisine \u2013 and even a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mrjeffu\/status\/1778563217167696306\">half-decent joke<\/a> from Kishida about the Flintstones.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/apr\/12\/joe-biden-japan-meeting-fumio-kishida-ferdinand-marcos-donald-trump-election\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite warm words from the US and Japanese leaders during their summit this week, back in Japan the spectre of a second Trump White House looms largeJoe Biden was effusive in his praise for Japan and its \u201cbold\u201d prime minister, Fumio Kishida, during a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":818,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,415,88,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-donald-trump","category-japan","category-us-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/818"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63276"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63277,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63276\/revisions\/63277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}