“Is Japan gaga for Donald Trump? That was the impression created by a spellbinding YouTube video that went viral last week. Despite the video’s popularity, the reality is that perhaps no U.S. ally is as anxious and befuddled about the prospect of a President Trump as Japan. (. . .) Trump has taken a sledgehammer to the long-assumed pillars of the U.S.-Japan relationship; there is an ‘unspoken but unanimous consensus among serious Japanese people in business, bureaucracy and politics that Trump is a disaster,’ said Tsuyoshi Sunohara, a well-connected writer and secretary-general of the U.S.-Japan Project at the Japan Center for Economic Research. ‘Including Prime Minister Abe — though he’s never said it publicly, officially, he’s very much concerned.'”

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