Japan's core consumer prices in September rose 2.9 percent from a year earlier, driven by higher energy and food costs, government da

TOKYO (Reuters) -Among the gifts offered up by Japan's new premier Sanae Takaichi to U.S. President Donald Trump in their first meeting on Tuesday was a putter used by Shinzo Abe, his golfing buddy and the country's late leader.

Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who died in 2022, is said to have played a "key role" at Tuesday's summit meeting between Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi and U.S. President Donald Trump,

President Trump is wrapping up his trip to Japan as part of a week-long tour in Asia. He met with Japan’s newly-elected first female Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi. Also, with trade and tariff tensions escalating,