U.S. President Donald Trump departed for Tokyo on Monday, where he was scheduled to meet Japan’s emperor and newly elected Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi as part of an Asia trip aimed at securing trade deals, investment and increased defence spending.

Trump, on his longest journey abroad since taking office in January, announced a slew of deals with Southeast Asian countries and oversaw the signing of a ceasefire agreement between Thailand and Cambodia during his first stop in Malaysia.

His trip is expected to conclude in a summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping in South Korea on Thursday, where the world’s two largest economies will seek to avert an escalation of their trade war.

While Trump has already landed a $550 billion investment pledge from Japan in exchange for respite on puni

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