Japan's Ishiba wins runoff vote to stay as PM ahead of likely Trump meeting

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

81% : Ishiba and Trump spoke by phone last week, a conversation that Ishiba called "extremely friendly."
73% : Many in Japan credit that personal bond for relatively smooth U.S.-Japan relations while Trump was president.
57% : Meanwhile, Japanese officials are trying to arrange a meeting between Ishiba and Trump after the prime minister attends a meeting of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in Peru and then a Group of 20 leaders' summit in Brazil early next week.
48% : Trump has also called for Japan to pay more for the U.S. military presence of around 55,000 troops, the largest permanent foreign deployment of American forces.
47% : Late Prime Minister Shinzo Abe flew to New York from South America in November 2016 soon after Trump was first elected, and the two struck up a warm relationship.
44% : The DPP's main demand is to raise the ceiling of tax-free incomes from ¥1.03 million to ¥1.78 million.
17% : In an interview with Bloomberg Businessweek in June, Trump renewed his criticism of the yen's weakness against the dollar and the advantage it gives Japanese companies such as automakers.

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