Japan’s prime minister prepares to roll out the red carpet, but will the U.S. president trample on it?
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe talks to reporters after speaking by phone with President Trump in February. Abe is rolling out the red carpet for Trump’s visit this week. By Simon Denyer and Simon Denyer Tokyo bureau chief covering Japan, North Korea and South Korea. Email Bio Follow David Nakamura David Nakamura Reporter covering the White House Email Bio Follow May 23 at 1:00 AM TOKYO — Perhaps no world leader has been as assiduous in flattering President Trump’s ego as Shinzo Abe.
In a further accommodation, special seats will be placed for Trump and first lady Melania Trump right by the ring — in a place where spectators normally sit cross-legged on mats. That has spread ripples of unease through this most conservative of sports. Normally, VIPs sit in a special enclosure set back and above the ring.
“A fair number of Japanese, especially the conservative ones, attach a great deal of importance to the pomp and decorum and dignity of the imperial institution,” said Koichi Nakano, a political science professor at Sophia University in Tokyo. “Abe’s willingness to use that as a bait to curry personal favor with Trump is seen with anxiety, I am sure even by people in policy circles.”
“Abe has a very good handle on the kind of things Trump likes, and he understands the imagery of Trump as a great leader,” said Daniel Sneider, an East Asia specialist at Stanford University, who calls the schedule masterful. “It’s one piece of imagery after another, all of which are calculated to send messages that Trump wants to see.”
Akira Ikegami, a journalist who wrote the afterword in the Japanese edition of Michael Wolff’s “Fire and Fury,” said the book, a bestseller in the United States, did not do well in Japan, as there was limited interest in lurid details about dysfunction in Trump’s White House.
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