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Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba expects assurances from Friday that the alliance is strong. But in this White House, even an assembly can be a gamble.

By Martin Fackler

Tokyo Reports

As the Japanese prime minister prepares for his first assembly with President Trump, he hopes to identify a non-public connection to the leader of the superpower on which his country depends economically and militarily. It can be a dictated bet.

The summit between Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, which is scheduled for Friday, is the result of months of behind-the-scenes efforts across a wide diversity of Japanese — just diplomats and lawmakers, but also one of the members of the country’s richest investors and the widow of a slain former prime minister.

When he arrives at the White House, Mr. Ishiba is the maximum maximum that will likely seek to ensure that Mr. Trump will either head to Japan in an industry war or abandon America’s post-1945 security promises at a time when his country faces a muscular China and a nuclear nuclear. -First post-1945 North Korea.

In return, the Japanese prime minister would have to make concessions that may come with promises to buy more weapons or energy from the U. S. Invest in U. S. -based synthetic intelligence. U. S. And more percentage of the defense burden in the Asia-Pacific region.

“This summit will be the moment of truth,” said Narushige Michishita, a professor of security affairs at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies in Tokyo. “Does Trump see Japan as an indispensable spouse in the Asia-Pacific, or are they?Have we simply had a counterpart at the negotiating table?”

So far, Japan’s call has not given the impression when Mr. Trump has threatened to impose price lists on many other U. S. allies and trading partners. In November, we have called on the U. S. in November to congratulate him on his election victory.

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