By Tim Kelly

TOKYO (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump will meet Japan’s new Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi in Tokyo on Tuesday for talks on trade and security, a week after the hardline conservative became Japan’s first female leader and vowed to accelerate a military buildup.

Takaichi is expected to offer a package of U.S. investments in a $550-billion deal agreed this year, including cooperation in shipbuilding, sources familiar with the preparations previously told Reuters.

She will also seek to please the leader of Japan’s trade partner and security ally with purchases of pickup trucks, soybeans and natural gas, the sources said.

While Trump has previously said Tokyo is not spending enough to defend its islands from an increasingly assertive China, Takaichi is not expected to co

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