TOKYO/BEIJING -- As Japan faces a security environment that Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba says is the most complex since the end of World War II, the country has been relying on a diplomatic tactic it has long favored: the quickest way to a leader's heart is through their stomach.
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PMs from Abe to Ishiba have tailored state dinners to individual foreign leaders
Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe took President Donald Trump and his wife to a traditional but casual restaurant in Tokyo. (Asahi Shimbun/Pool)
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