US President Donald Trump is set to meet Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on Tuesday, sitting down with the newly elected conservative leader ahead of high-stakes trade talks with China on a tour of Asia.

Trump arrived in Tokyo on Monday for a visit sandwiched between a trip to Malaysia and a meeting in South Korea with Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping that could ease the bruising trade war between the world's two biggest economies, sparked by sweeping US tariffs.

Negotiators from Beijing and Washington have both confirmed a "framework" has been agreed.

In Tokyo, in their first face-to-face meeting, Trump and Takaichi are expected to focus on security and trade between their allied countries.

Takashi Ito, a 58-year-old Tokyo resident, said that "what's important is finding some kind

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