Mutual needs maintain 60-year alliance between US and Japan

The US and Japan keep peace in East Asia, but Shinzo Abe has been slighted by Donald Trump’s decision to meet Kim Jong Un and is fearful of China, says Robert Boxwell.

Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe is visiting US president Donald Trump this week, their seventh meeting since Trump’s 2016 election victory.

Abe was the first foreign leader to meet Trump, and the two countries’ military alliance has sustained peace in East Asia for the past 60 years.