Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is set to meet US President Donald Trump in Florida in a week's time.
The stakes are high for Mr Abe and Japan, caught between Mr Trump's famously transactional view of foreign relations and the rapidly shifting geopolitical dynamics in North-east Asia, in particular the looming summit between the US President and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, and an increasingly powerful and assertive China.
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