Japan’s conservatives turn sour on Trump as ‘fears of abandonment’ deepen

Ahead of US President Donald Trump’s second term, conservative groups in Japan, ranging from right-leaning media outlets to politicians, hailed his return to the White House as a golden opportunity for Tokyo to expand its trade with the world’s largest economy and cement its position as Washington’s security linchpin in the region. Since then, the same commentators who once predicted that Japan and the US would be the main beneficiaries of a surge in trade in the Indo-Pacific under the Trump...