U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to make a stop in Japan in early November — his first visit since he was inaugurated — during a planned trip to attend an Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, a senior government official in Tokyo said Wednesday.
However, whether Trump will come to Japan before or after the APEC meeting in Vietnam, which is scheduled for Nov. 10 and 11, has not yet been decided, the official said on condition of anonymity.
Still, during a news conference the same day, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga, who would not officially confirm plans for the visit, told reporters that no specific date has been set for such a stopover, even though Abe and Trump agreed in February that the U.S. president will travel to Japan by the end of this year.