President Donald Trump is meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi in Japan.
The meeting will feature a signing ceremony. Trump is joined by top officials, including Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick. The president met with Japan’s Emperor Naruhito earlier.
The meeting is the first between Trump and Takaichi, Japan’s first woman prime minister and a conservative hard-liner. The meeting is expected to go well, as the two align on key geostrategic issues such as competition with China and opposition to immigration. She was also mentored by one of Trump’s closest international friends, former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
Trump sent her a warm congratulations after she was elected earlier this month.
“Japan has just elected its first female Prime Minister, a highly respected person of great wisdom and strength. This is tremendous news for the incredible people of Japan. Congratulations to all!” he wrote on Truth Social, signing his name at the end.
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Some analysts credited her victory as being part of a global conservative populist wave, the same current that brought Trump to power.
The meeting between the two comes during Trump’s high-stakes visit to East Asia, beginning with a trip to Malaysia.
