Japan PM will nominate Trump for Nobel Peace Prize, White House says
Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi will nominate U.S. President Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize, the White House said Tuesday.
Trump has become increasingly focused on the Nobel since his return to power in January, and claims to have ended several conflicts around the world, a role that experts, however, downplay.
Trump says US is Japan ally 'at strongest level'
Trump said Tuesday that the United States was an ally of Japan "at the strongest level" as he met new Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi in Tokyo.
"We are an ally at the strongest level, and it's a great honor to be with you, especially so early in what will be, I think, one of the greatest prime ministers," he told Takaichi at their meeting, who took office last week.
PM Takaichi wants 'to realize new golden age of Japan-US alliance'
Takaichi said she wanted to "realize a new golden age" of relations with the United States as she met Trump in Tokyo.
"I would like to realize a new golden age of the Japan-U.S. Alliance, where both Japan and the United States will become stronger and also more prosperous," she said as the two leaders sat down for talks.
She also thanked Trump for his "enduring friendship" with assassinated prime minister Shinzo Abe.
Source: Agence France Presse
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