For nearly 80 years the American and Japanese people have enjoyed a friendship like few others. After our meeting today, I'm confident that the cherished alliances between our two countries will continue to flourish long into the future!
Video transcript
For nearly 80 years, the American Japanese people have enjoyed a friendship like few others. We've had a great friendship across the vast ocean, and we found ourselves united by bonds of history, commerce, culture, mutual admiration, and great respect. After our meeting today, I'm confident that the cherished alliances between our two countries and others also will continue to flourish long and into the future. The military cooperation between the United States and Japan is one of our closest security partnerships and it's one of the closest we have anywhere in the world. Our service members work together every day to defend our common interests. Japan is committed to double its defense spending by 2027 compared to my first term. We've invested a lot of money because of my first term. We worked on that very hard with Shinzo, you know, the great Shinzo Abe. And we look forward to seeing even more so. Shinzo and I worked very, very long and hard and those numbers are very reflective after my first term. And now they're going up very substantially based on our conversations today.
Transcribed automatically. Expect errors in names and numbers.