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Changing US-Japan relations

The first country President Obama is visiting in his Asia tour is Japan, where the global economy is bound to be one of the top items on the agenda. But awaiting the president in Tokyo is a new Prime Minister who has his own ideas of how relations with the US should be transformed.

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Changing US-Japan relations

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