President Donald Trump spent an enjoyable day in Japan with Prime Minister Sinzo Abe — a round of golf, a sumo wrestling match and meals of breakfast, hamburgers and barbecue and some diplomacy Sunday.
May 26 (UPI) — President Donald Trump spent an enjoyable day in Japan with Prime Minister Sinzo Abe — a round of golf, a sumo wrestling match and meals of breakfast, hamburgers and barbecue and some diplomacy Sunday.
It was Trump’s first full day in Japan after Air Force One landed at Haneda International Airport in Tokyo just before 5 p.m. local time — 16 hours after departing from Washington, D. C.
These activities as well as a meeting with business leaders on Saturday night and trade talks on Monday are part of the royal pageantry of a state visit, the first for Japan’s newly enthroned Emperor Naruhito.
«The prime minister and I talked lot today about trade and military and various other things,» Trump said at the start of the barbecue dinner after being handed his first course on a long wooden paddle. «I think we had a very productive day.»
And back at Palace Hotel Tokyo on Saturday night, he tweeted about trade.
Trump had begun his day tweeting he wasn’t too concerned about North Korea’s recent missile launch test, which are at odds with his host Abe.
