President Donald Trump says he wants to slash the U.S. trade deficit with Japan. Trump made the comments as he welcomed Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba to the White House on Friday for their first face-to-face meeting.

Ishiba said his country was the biggest investor in the United States and would step up its spending. The soft-spoken, cigarette-smoking Ishiba had rushed to Washington hoping to

After a Japan-US summit meeting in Washington D.C., Japan’s prime minister Shigeru Ishiba has expressed his intention to invest $1 trillion into the United States — an “unprecedented” level, according to the PM.