U.S. President Donald Trump has been invited to inspect the Maritime Self-Defense Force’s largest vessel during his visit to Japan early next month, Japanese government sources said Thursday.
Trump would be the first U.S. president to visit the helicopter carrier Izumo, which was commissioned in March 2015.
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