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No details of the meeting have been provided

Japan's PM is set to become the first foreign leader to meet US

President-elect Donald Trump, since the election last week.
Shinzo Abe said he wanted to "build trust" and "work together for
prosperity and world peace", before leaving for his trip.
The meeting in New York comes amid concern over the foreign
policy direction of Tokyo's biggest ally.

Mr Trump has said Japan needs to pay more to maintain US troops

on its soil.
He also condemned a major trade deal struck by President Obama
with Japan and other Pacific Rim countries.
The US and Japan have been key allies since the end of World War
Two, when the US helped Japan rebuild its economy.
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Mr Abe is stopping in New York on his way to an Asia-Pacific trade
summit in Peru.
But details of Thursday's meeting are unclear, with a Japanese
official saying exactly where it will happen has not been firmed up.
"There has been a lot of confusion," a Japanese official told Reuters
news agency.

AFP

Mr Trump was not Japan's popular choice but his campaign gripped the public

The BBC's Paul Adams in Washington says Mr Trump has toned

down some of his more strident rhetoric since the election, but that
hasn't stopped observers wondering whether the fundamentals of
post-war US policy on Asia can survive.

Mr Trump has also yet to select his new cabinet and other positions.
He has denied that the transition to the White House is in a
disarray.
Mr Trump and Vice President-elect Mike Pence have spoken with 29
world leaders since the election, according to a statement from the
transition team.
It remains unclear who else might be at the meeting with Mr Abe.
High-level talks are rarely held in such an informal context and Tokyo
is keen to minimise uncertainty during the long handover of power.
"We want to safeguard our alliance with the United States during the
transition," said a senior Japanese foreign ministry official, Tetsuya
Otsuru, when the meeting was announced.
But there are some key points of difference between the two
countries.

Watch: BBC's Rupert Wingfield-Hayes on Mr Trumps dated view of Japan

The US-Japan security alliance

Donald Trump has suggested the US could pull troops out if Japan
does not start paying more for them. Tokyo currently spends $1.7bn
(1.3bn) on their support, including the costs of running US bases,
which are unpopular with many in Okinawa where most are located.

China

Both men distrust Beijing, but the focus of their concern is different.
Mr Trump accuses China of engaging in the biggest "theft" of US
jobs in history, by exploiting "terrible" trade deals he will renegotiate
or rip up. For Mr Abe the main concern is likely to be Beijing's
increasingly aggressive tone towards territory Japan controls but
which China also claims.

Trade
Japan is an export-led economy, heavily dependent on trade. It
needs the US to stay open to its products and to back trade deals
that keep other countries open to them too. Mr Trump has expressed
concerns about Japanese imports and has promised to ditch the
Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal, even though many
saw it as a way to contain China, which is working on a rival deal.

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