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President Donald Trump was given a regal reception on Monday in Japan, the latest leg of a week-long Asian journey which he hopes to cap with an deal on a trade conflict ceasefire with China's leader Xi Jinping.

Official Meetings

The former president, undertaking his most extensive foreign travel since taking office in January, revealed arrangements with four nations in Southeast Asia during the opening phase in Malaysia and is projected to meet Xi in Seoul on later this week.

The former leader exchanged greetings with officials on the tarmac and displayed a few fist pumps, before his aircraft whisked him off for a nocturnal sightseeing trip of Japan's capital. His convoy was afterwards spotted entering the royal compound, where he encountered Japanese sovereign Naruhito.

Trade Arrangements

Donald Trump has obtained a $550-billion investment pledge from Tokyo in exchange for respite from punishing import tariffs.

The country's newly elected leader, Sanae Takaichi, is striving to continue to please Trump with assurances to buy US light trucks, legumes and natural gas, and declare an arrangement on vessel manufacturing.

The prime minister, who assumed the role of Japan's initial woman prime minister in the past seven days, told Trump that strengthening their countries' alliance was her "main objective" in a phone conversation on Saturday.

Other Updates

• Washington and Beijing have reached consensus a structure for a commercial agreement mere days before the former president and China's leader Xi Jinping are scheduled to encounter. The economic official the treasury head said the arrangement, created on the margins of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations conference in the Malaysian nation on the weekend, would remove the risk of the imposition of 100% tariffs on Beijing's exports commencing early November.
• Trump has managed the signing of a truce deal between the Thai nation and Phnom Penh on the opening day of an Asian journey. The US president landed in the Malaysian nation on the weekend before the ASEAN summit in the capital, Malaysia's capital.
• The Muslim civil rights group has accused the Trump administration of a "obvious offense to free speech" after national border officials arrested English correspondent, the writer, on Sunday.

The former president said he was looking forward to encountering Takaichi, a strong supporter of his deceased companion and golf companion, previous leader the late prime minister, adding: "I think she will prove outstanding."

Official Comments

Additionally, the former president announced he would eliminate campaigning for the second-in-command position in the 2028 US election, an concept some of his supporters have proposed to allow the Republican president to hold office an further tenure in government.

"I could to take that action," Trump said, in an conversation with journalists on Air Force One.

However, he continued: "That's not an option. I think it's too cute. Yeah, I would reject that possibility because it's too cute. I believe the public wouldn't like that. It's too cute. It would not be - it wouldn't be appropriate."