Donald Trump and Japan’s Sanae Takaichi sign agreement to ‘secure’ rare earths supply

Japan’s new prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, has vowed to realise a “golden age” in her country’s relations with the US at the start of a meeting with Donald Trump in Tokyo.

Trump, who is in Japan on the second leg of a week-long tour of Asia, and Takaichi quickly signed an agreement laying out a framework to secure mining and processing of rare earths and other critical minerals.