Trump announces Japan trade deal as doubt cast over future of PM Ishiba

Tokyo's failure to secure a US deal sooner had caused political unease and economic uncertainty in Japan

Donald Trump has announced a trade deal with Japan, potentially resolving weeks of fraught negotiations between the two allies which had caused economic uncertainty in Tokyo and mounting speculation about the future of the prime minister, Shigeru Ishiba.

We just completed a massive deal with Japan," the US president announced in a post online, adding: Japan will invest, at my direction, $550 billion dollars into the United States."