After Trump’s 2016 election, Shinzo Abe was the first foreign leader he met and they maintained a strong relationship through his first term in the White House. Trump has often spoken fondly of Abe, who was assassinated in 2022 while giving a speech in Japan.
The language of decline, of a country whose time has passed, is gone: From think tanks to hedge funds, Japan is on everyone’s lips. Tokyo is at the heart of Washington’s strategy to “de-risk” from China. Money is flowing into the markets, led by Warren Buffett. And tourists are flocking back