Missile Threats: Japan and Campaign-Trail Skepticism

missile threats: U.S. President Donald Trump personally and publicly confirmed, as the Abe administration fervently hoped, that all areas under Japan's administrative control meaning the Senkaku Islands fall under the coverage of the U.S.-Japan alliance, according to The Japan Times. He stressed the importance of freedom of navigation, a matter at issue today in the South China Sea, as well as the dangers of North Korea's nuclear and missile threats. It also stressed the transcendent importance of U.S.-Japan relations as a whole in American global diplomacy. Trump also pointedly thanked Japan for hosting U.S. armed forces, and made no mention of burden-sharing, departing markedly from his campaign-trail skepticism of Japan's contributions to mutual defense. Abe noted, appropriately, the 150 billion that Japanese firms have invested recently in the U.S., and the important contribution that such investment is making to U.S. employment. For his part, Abe too re-affirmed the importance that he personally appears to see in U.S.-Japan relations, noting at his joint press conference with Trump that he had traveled four times in the past six months to the United States. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.