Abe has a Trump problem: How to get Japan to buy U.S. cars

(Bloomberg)

IR

By:

Isabel Reynolds and Yuki Hagiwara

January 25, 2017 05:00 AM

TOKYO -- As Japan races to preserve U.S. trade ties after President Donald Trump withdrew from a Pacific trade pact, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe faces a dilemma that has plagued Japanese leaders since the 1980s: How to convince his citizens to buy American cars?

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