WASHINGTON: Donald Trump is accused at times of acting like a king, but when the US president becomes the first foreign leader to meet Japan's newly enthroned Emperor Naruhito next week, he can expect truly royal treatment from eager-to-please allies.
But the accent will be on the positive in Japan, where Abe has staked much on his close personal relationship with the colorful, unpredictable US leader. If anyone can upstage the sight of enormous, loincloth-clad men clashing on a clay ring, it will surely be the showman US president who, The Asahi Shimbun newspaper reports, will present a trophy dubbed - naturally - the"Trump Cup".
Abe, who once courted Trump with a US$3,755 golden golf club, has even been getting in some practice. But Abe has had more success than several other traditional US partners in using his personal ties to rebuild bridges. "Three visits in both directions in a short amount of time is really emblematic of just how close the relationship is," the administration official said, noting that the two leaders had met or spoken more than 40 times in the last two years.Of course, Japan in World War II became the only victim to date of atomic weapons when the United States bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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