{"id":28766,"date":"2026-04-26T08:12:35","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T08:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/president-donald-trump-begins-new-us-japan-alliance-bbc-news\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T08:12:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T08:12:35","slug":"president-donald-trump-begins-new-us-japan-alliance-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/president-donald-trump-begins-new-us-japan-alliance-bbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"President Donald Trump begins new US-Japan alliance | BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TSHqZirGfBU?autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>US President Donald Trump has signed a rare earths deal with Japan\u2019s newly elected Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi as the two leaders heralded a &#8220;golden age&#8221; in their countries&#8217; alliance.<\/p>\n<p>Trump addressed troops aboard the aircraft carrier, USS George Washington, which is stationed in Japan and told cheering troops that he is not going to be &#8220;politically correct&#8221;, adding that &#8220;if we&#8217;re in a war, we&#8217;re going to win the war\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Takaichi told the troops that Japan was &#8220;committed to reinforcing defence capabilities\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>After Japan, Trump is due to fly to South Korea to meet the Chinese leader Xi Jinping.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe here: http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog<\/p>\n<p>For more news, analysis and features visit: www.bbc.com\/news <\/p>\n<p>#Japan #Trump #BBCNews<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TSHqZirGfBU\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump has signed a rare earths deal with Japan\u2019s newly elected Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi as the two leaders heralded a &#8220;golden age&#8221; in their countries&#8217; alliance. Trump addressed troops aboard the aircraft carrier, USS George Washington, which is stationed in Japan and told cheering troops that he is not going to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28767,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-video","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28766"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28768,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28766\/revisions\/28768"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}