{"id":69338,"date":"2025-02-07T08:00:26","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T23:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/feb\/07\/japans-pm-heads-to-washington-hoping-he-can-recreate-rapport-of-trump-abe-era"},"modified":"2025-02-07T08:00:26","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T23:00:26","slug":"japans-pm-heads-to-washington-hoping-he-can-recreate-rapport-of-trump-abe-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=69338","title":{"rendered":"Japan\u2019s PM heads to Washington hoping he can recreate rapport of Trump-Abe era"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shigeru Ishiba will seek familiar guarantees: that the US will continue to stand on Japan\u2019s side against China and North Korea<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump had yet to get his feet under the Oval Office desk when he held his first meeting with a foreign leader in late 2016. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/shinzo-abe\">Shinzo Abe<\/a>, then Japan\u2019s prime minister, arrived at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2016\/nov\/18\/japan-confidence-trump-president-shinzo-abe\">Trump Tower<\/a> in November that year bearing a gift of a gold-plated golf club and harbouring a determination to get the Japan-US relationship under Trump off to the best possible start.<\/p>\n<p>The success, or otherwise, of Abe\u2019s charm offensive had potentially serious repercussions. During the election campaign, Trump had suggested he would withdraw US troops from Japan, contingent on Tokyo\u2019s willingness to make a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/parallels\/2016\/11\/10\/501531166\/japan-and-south-korea-rattled-by-trumps-talk-of-closing-u-s-bases\">bigger financial contribution<\/a> to their countries\u2019 postwar alliance.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/feb\/07\/japans-pm-heads-to-washington-hoping-he-can-recreate-rapport-of-trump-abe-era\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shigeru Ishiba will seek familiar guarantees: that the US will continue to stand on Japan\u2019s side against China and North KoreaDonald Trump had yet to get his feet under the Oval Office desk when he held his first meeting with a foreign leader in late 2&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"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":[41,415,88,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-donald-trump","category-japan","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69338","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\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69338"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69339,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69338\/revisions\/69339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}