Tokyo: Emphasising that the bilateral relationship between Japan and the United States has now become “the greatest alliance in the world”, Japan’s new Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on Tuesday pledged to build with visiting US President Donald Trump a “new golden era” of partnership between the two countries.

Trump and Takaichi met in Tokyo on Monday for the Japan-US Summit meeting during which they finalised the signing of various agreements to bolster cooperation in the fields of defence and economy.

It also included a ‘United States-Japan Framework For Securing the Supply of Critical Minerals and Rare Earths through Mining and Processing’ which intends to support the supply of raw and processed critical minerals and rare earths

crucial to the domestic industries of the United States

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