{"id":76766,"date":"2026-03-20T03:48:25","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T18:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/mar\/19\/trump-mocks-japan-pearl-harbor-iran-war"},"modified":"2026-03-20T09:45:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T00:45:52","slug":"trump-mocks-japan-about-pearl-harbor-in-response-to-question-about-iran-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=76766","title":{"rendered":"Trump mocks Japan about Pearl Harbor in response to question about Iran war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US president was meeting with Japanese PM when he said: \u2018Who knows better about surprise than Japan?\u2019<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2026\/mar\/20\/iran-war-live-updates-oil-prices-israel-netanyahu-ground-component-us-tensions-hormuz\">Middle East crisis \u2013 live updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It would be funny if it wasn\u2019t so Trumpy.<\/p>\n<p>Hosting the Japanese prime minister, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/sanae-takaichi\">Sanae Takaichi<\/a>, in the Oval Office on Thursday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a> could not resist mocking <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/japan\">Japan<\/a> about its 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor during the second world war.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/mar\/19\/trump-mocks-japan-pearl-harbor-iran-war\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US president was meeting with Japanese PM when he said: \u2018Who knows better about surprise than Japan?\u2019Middle East crisis \u2013 live updatesSign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inboxIt would be funny if it wasn\u2019t so Trumpy&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1491,"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":[41,415,1456,88,220,45,47,631,3510,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-donald-trump","category-hawaii","category-japan","category-second-world-war","category-us-foreign-policy","category-us-news","category-us-politics","category-us-israel-war-on-iran","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\/76766","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\/1491"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76766"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76777,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76766\/revisions\/76777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}