{"id":74918,"date":"2025-10-27T15:50:35","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T06:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/oct\/27\/japans-new-pm-will-hope-the-abe-effect-endears-trump-to-her-at-crucial-talks"},"modified":"2025-10-27T15:50:35","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T06:50:35","slug":"japans-new-pm-will-hope-the-abe-effect-endears-trump-to-her-at-crucial-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=74918","title":{"rendered":"Japan\u2019s new PM will hope the Abe effect endears Trump to her at crucial talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sanae Takaichi leads a minority government and needs a successful meeting with the US president on Tuesday. Thankfully her mentor, Shinzo Abe, is one of Trump\u2019s \u2018favourites\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Japan\u2019s new prime minister, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/oct\/04\/sanae-takaichi-the-new-leader-of-japans-liberal-democratic-party-who-cites-thatcher-as-an-influence\">Sanae Takaichi<\/a>, faces the first real test of her diplomatic and personal skills when she meets <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/trump-administration\">Donald Trump<\/a> for talks in Tokyo that are expected to focus on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/internationaltrade\">trade<\/a> and security.<\/p>\n<p>Takaichi, who this month became Japan\u2019s first female leader after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/oct\/04\/sanae-takaichi-expected-to-become-japans-first-female-pm-after-winning-ruling-party-leadership\">winning a vote<\/a> to lead the ruling Liberal Democratic party (LDP), made her international debut at this weekend\u2019s Asean summit.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/oct\/27\/japans-new-pm-will-hope-the-abe-effect-endears-trump-to-her-at-crucial-talks\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sanae Takaichi leads a minority government and needs a successful meeting with the US president on Tuesday. Thankfully her mentor, Shinzo Abe, is one of Trump\u2019s \u2018favourites\u2019Japan\u2019s new prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, faces the first real test of her di&#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":[415,88,45,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-donald-trump","category-japan","category-us-foreign-policy","category-us-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74918","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=74918"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74919,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74918\/revisions\/74919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}