Journalism of Courage
US President Donald Trump pours fish food out as Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe looks on while they were feeding carps before their working lunch at Akasaka Palace in Tokyo, Japan November 6, 2017. Watching from the rear is US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. (Reuters)
US President Donald Trump reviews an honor guard during a welcome ceremony with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, left, at Akasaka Palace in Tokyo, Monday, November 6. Trump is on a 12-day tour of Asia. (AP/PTI)
US first lady Melania Trump watches a schoolchild as she attends a calligraphy class of the 4th grader at Kyobashi Tsukiji Elementary School in Tokyo, Monday. A woman standing at left is an unidentified interpreter. (AP Photo)
President Donald Trump, accompanied by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, speaks during a joint news conference at the Akasaka Palace on Monday in Tokyo. Trump is on a five country trip ans will be traveling to Japan, South Korea, China, Vietnam and the Philippines. (AP/PTI)
U.S. first lady Melania Trump uses a brush to write Japanese words "Peace" helped by a schoolgirl while attending a calligraphy class of the 4th grader at Kyobashi Tsukiji Elementary School in Tokyo, Monday. Standing at left is an interpreter. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)
Trump’s Asia trip is particularly important in light of the constant nuclear threat from North Korea. Before he landed in Japan, Trump denounced North Korea as “a big problem” that must “be solved.” (Reuters)
US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania meet abductees and families of abductees by North Korea in Tokyo, Japan on Monday. Trump met Sakie Yokota (C, front row), 81, mother of Megumi Yokota who has been abducted by North Korean agents in Japan as she was 13-year-old junior high schoolgirl, and Megumi's twin brothers Takuya and Tetsuya Yokota (Left behind of Sakie). (Reuters/Kimimasa Mayama/Pool)
U.S. President Donald Trump and Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe hold a luncheon at the Akasaka Palace in Tokyo on Monday. Trump and Abe signed a white hat in the dining room that read: “Donald and Shinzo: Make Alliance Even Greater” (Reuters)
Trump and Abe even went golfing together on Sunday. (Reuters)
US First Lady Melania Trump poses with Japanese First Lady Akie Abe before their lunch at the Akasaka Palace in Tokyo on Monday. (Reuters)
Abe spoke to reporters after he and Trump had lunch and played golf. He said that the two leaders were able to talk frankly in a relaxed atmosphere while out on the course.(Reuters)
Donald Trump and Melania meet abductees and families of abductees by North Korea with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Abe's wife Akie at Hagoromo Room at Akasaka Palace in Tokyo on Monday. (Reuters)
Calling the relationship between the two nations as “really extraordinary”, Trump said America has never been this close to Japan than the two nations are right now. Here,e he shakes hands with Abe before a working lunch at Akasaka Palace in Tokyo. (Reuters)
Donald Trump, Melania Trump, Shinzo Abe and Akie Abe stand with family members of Japanese citizens abducted by North Korea agents in the 1970's and 80's, at Akasaka Palace in Tokyo, Japan on Monday. (Reuters)
Calligraphy of a part of Japanese words "Peace" written by US first lady Melania Trump is seen during a calligraphy class of the 4th grader at Kyobashi Tsukiji Elementary School in Tokyo, Monday. Melania and Japanese PM Shinzo Abe's wife Akie attended the calligraphy class. (Toshifumi Kitamura/Pool Photo via AP)
US first lady Melania Trump and her Japanese counterpart, Akie Abe, visited a pearl boutique in Tokyo’s posh Ginza shopping district. The first ladies received a presentation on the history of pearl diving at Mikimoto, Japan’s top pearl jewelry maker. They are seen here visiting an elementary school. (Reuters)
US first lady Melania Trump is waved by schoolchildren with national flags of Japan and the US as she leaves after Kyobashi Tsukiji Elementary School in Tokyo, Monday. (AP Photo)
