business circles: He joined the Hudson Institute, a conservative U.S. think tank, in 1991 and assumed his current post in March 2011. ; The institute has been influential in U.S. political and business circles as a think tank with a close relationship to the Trump administration, according to The Japan Times. Weinstein often visited Japan to hold talks with Abe and Taro Kono when he was foreign minister. Weinstein is said to have close relations with both Trump and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. This summer, he launched the institute's Japan Chair and appointed H.R. McMaster, a former national security adviser to Trump, as head of the new division. The government contributed some 560 million from the fiscal 2018 supplementary budget to the institute to establish the new division, with an aim to promote the dispatch of information for stronger ties with the United States and to boost its influence in U.S. decision-making. A source familiar with the situation said that Weinstein is the best choice for boosting Japan-U.S. relations.
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