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Trump Participates in an Extended Bilateral Meeting with the Prime Minister of Japan, Oct. 28, 2025

October 28, 2025 · The White House · 0:10:49

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What happened

President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi of Japan delivered extended bilateral remarks in Tokyo on October 28, 2025. Prime Minister Takaichi, speaking in Japanese with interpretation in the broadcast, apologized for the delayed start — the two had been watching baseball in the President’s room, with the Dodgers leading 1–0, as she stated it — and thanked the President for his congratulatory message immediately after her victory in the Liberal Democratic Party leadership election. She thanked him for his long friendship with former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and for hosting Akie Abe the previous December, and said Abe had often told her of the President’s dynamic diplomacy. She praised the Thailand–Cambodia ceasefire and the Middle East agreement — “the deal you have recently achieved in the Middle East is an unprecedented historic achievement,” as interpreted — and said the world had become more peaceful in a short period through the President’s commitment.

The Prime Minister said the Japan–U.S. alliance had become the greatest alliance in the world, that she was determined to restore strong Japanese diplomacy to protect Japan’s national interests, and that she stood ready to promote further collaboration toward a free and open Indo-Pacific, as interpreted. For the United States’ 250th anniversary the following year, she announced a gift of 250 cherry trees to Washington, D.C., and said fireworks from Japan’s Akita Prefecture would be shown in Washington on July 4, as interpreted. “I would like to realize a new golden age of the Japan–U.S. alliance, where both Japan and the United States will become stronger and also more prosperous,” she said, as interpreted.

President Trump congratulated the Prime Minister — “congratulations on being woman prime minister, a big deal, that’s a big deal” — and recalled that Abe “spoke so well of you.” He said Japan was “increasing your military capacity very substantially, and we’ve received your orders for a very large amount of new military equipment. And you know that we make the best military equipment in the world — the jets, missiles and everything else — and hope we don’t have to use them very much, if at all. But we appreciate that order, and we very much appreciate the trade. We do tremendous trade together, I think more than ever.” He closed: “I have always had a great love of Japan and great respect of Japan, and I will say that this will be a relation that will be stronger than ever before… Anything I can do to help Japan, we will be there. We are an ally at the strongest level.”

Why it matters

The extended bilateral is the fullest statement of the Trump–Takaichi relationship on this chronicle’s record — the “new golden age” framing, Japan’s military build-up and equipment orders, and the 250th-anniversary gifts — from the first woman to lead Japan and the President who counted her predecessor among his closest counterparts.

Sources: The White House, “President Trump Participates in an Extended Bilateral Meeting with the Prime Minister of Japan” (official upload, embedded above; Tokyo, Japan). Remarks as delivered; the Prime Minister’s remarks as interpreted in the broadcast.