TIL Desk/World/Tokyo-Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is to meet US president-elect Donald Trump next week in New York, officials said today, after phone talks between the two following the billionaire’s shock election win.
Abe and Trump spoke for about 20 minutes and tentatively set a date of November 17 for the meeting, just before Abe goes to Peru for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit, a Japanese foreign ministry official told. During his election campaign, Trump raised eyebrows in Japan by calling on the country to pay more to support the cost of stationing US forces.
He even suggested that Japan might want to become a nuclear power to counter unpredictable neighbour North Korea, which has repeatedly conducted nuclear and ballistic missile tests to international condemnations and prompting UN sanctions. That statement shocked many in Japan, the only country in the world to have been attacked with nuclear weapons. Trump has also rejected the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade deal pushed by President Barack Obama and which Abe hopes his parliament will ratify soon.
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