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Trump Participates in a Welcome Ceremony with Honor Guard, Oct. 28, 2025

October 28, 2025 · The White House · 0:07:40

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What happened

President Donald Trump participated in the official welcome ceremony with honor guard at Akasaka Palace in Tokyo on October 28, 2025, hosted by Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi at the opening of his Japan visit. The White House broadcast is ceremony footage — the arrival, the honor guard, and the two leaders on the review stand — carried without remarks.

The ceremony opened the Tokyo day that continued with the greeting and extended bilateral meeting, the signing ceremony, the abductee families meeting, and the troop visit aboard the USS George Washington, each paged in this chronicle.

Why it matters

The Akasaka Palace welcome is the ceremonial opening of the first Trump–Takaichi summit — the formal start of the visit that produced the alliance implementation agreement, the critical minerals framework, and the $490 billion investment signing recorded on this day’s other pages.

Sources: The White House, “President Trump Participates in a Welcome Ceremony with Honor Guard” (official upload, embedded above; Akasaka Palace, Tokyo, Japan). Ceremony footage; no remarks were delivered in the broadcast.