Prime Minister Shinzo Abe plans to hold a meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama in Washington on April 28, a day after their defense and foreign affairs chiefs are scheduled to hold security talks, Japanese government sources said.
Abe has informed a senior ruling party lawmaker of a planned eight-day trip to the United States from April 26 that will also take him to Boston, San Francisco and Los Angeles, the sources said Thursday.
At the summit with Obama, Abe is expected to tell him that Japan aims to deepen the alliance with the United States through security bills his administration to submit to the Diet in mid-May.