At a fiery press conference on Monday, Donald Trump listed the allies he had expected to join the war in Iran but which had not. Nato, Australia and South Korea were all namechecked. And then he turned to the country that has long aspired to be America’s most loyal friend.
“You know who else didn’t help us? Japan,” said the US president, pointedly adding that there were currently 50,000 US troops stationed across the Japanese archipelago.
For Sanae Takaichi, the Japanese prime minister who last month strove to avoid that exact accusation at a delicate summit with Trump, the president’s comment defined Japan’s crisis.
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