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US President Barack Obama will hold a summit meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Tokyo later this month, the Government in Tokyo said on Friday.
Obama’s visit as a state guest on April 24 and 25 will be the first such trip by a US President since Bill Clinton in 1996, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga told a news conference.
Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida said Abe and Obama “will stress the role of the Japan-US alliance as a contributor to peace and prosperity in the Asia-Pacific region.”
Abe and Obama are expected to affirm trilateral ties with South Korea in dealing with North Korea’s nuclear and missile programmes, and discuss China’s military buildup and its territorial claims in neighbouring seas.
During the two-day stay, Obama will also meet Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko.
Obama’s trip, his first to Japan since November 2010, is part of a four-nation Asian tour that will also take him to South Korea, Malaysia and the Philippines, the Kyodo News agency reported.
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