{"id":74930,"date":"2025-10-28T11:57:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T02:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/oct\/28\/donald-trump-sanae-takaichi-japan-prime-minister-rare-earths-agreement"},"modified":"2025-10-28T19:28:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T10:28:08","slug":"donald-trump-and-japans-sanae-takaichi-sign-agreement-to-secure-rare-earths-supply","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=74930","title":{"rendered":"Japanese PM promises golden age in relations with US during Trump visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sanae Takaichi says she will nominate Trump for peace prize and two leaders sign agreement on rare earths<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/oct\/17\/rare-earths-critical-minerals-explained\">What are rare earths \u2013 explained in 30 seconds<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Japan\u2019s new prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, has vowed to realise a \u201cgolden age\u201d in relations with the US and to \u201cfundamentally reinforce\u201d her country\u2019s defence posture at the start of a visit by Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Trump, who is in Japan on the second leg of a week-long <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/oct\/24\/trump-asia-tour-key-questions-xi-jinping-china-japan-south-korea-malaysia\">tour of Asia<\/a>, and Takaichi quickly signed an agreement laying out a framework to secure the mining and processing of rare earths and other critical minerals.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/oct\/28\/donald-trump-sanae-takaichi-japan-prime-minister-rare-earths-agreement\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sanae Takaichi says she will nominate Trump for peace prize and two leaders sign agreement on rare earthsWhat are rare earths \u2013 explained in 30 secondsJapan\u2019s new prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, has vowed to realise a \u201cgolden age\u201d in relations with the&#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":[41,3426,415,88,45,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-critical-minerals","category-donald-trump","category-japan","category-us-foreign-policy","category-us-news","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\/74930","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=74930"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74939,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74930\/revisions\/74939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}