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10/02/2017 GMT

Trump & Abe: Golf Diplomacy

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As Shinzo Abe meets the US President for talks, we ask can Japan stand up to Trump?

Japan's Shinzo Abe will partner up with Donald Trump for golf this weekend: A hole in one for trans-Pacific trade, or will it lip out of the hole into the bunker?

Japan's Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe, will partner up with Donald Trump for a round in Florida tomorrow. But will that be enough to heal the strains made apparent by the US President's America First rhetoric? Is trans-Pacific trade about to lip out of the hole into the bunker? We speak to William Saito, the economic advisor to the Japanese government, and separately our reporter, Mariko Oi, reflects on one of Japan's most entrenched economic challenges, its aging population. Are the Japanese having enough sex, she asks? Finally, we reflect on the decision by the British Foreign Secretary to renounce his US citizenship (he had held dual UK and US citizenship, having been born in the US). He's not alone in doing so. Five thousand Americans living overseas relinquished their citizenship last year in frustration at tough US tax rules, demanding that every citizen declare everything they earn in the US, even though they're earning and declaring it already in another country. Christina Franco and Bill Wires are two Europe-based Americans who've taken the plunge and said goodbye to citizenship of their Motherland altogether. How does that feel? 

(Pictrure: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe travelling in a golf cart; Credit: Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

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