India, Oct. 28 -- US President Donald Trump joined Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi for a warm welcome ceremony at Tokyo's Akasaka Palace on Tuesday, as both leaders pledged to strengthen ties and usher in what Takaichi described as a "new golden age" of the Japan-US alliance.

"I would like to realise a new golden age of the Japan-US Alliance, where both Japan and the United States will become stronger and more prosperous," said Takaichi, Japan's first female prime minister, as the two leaders sat down for talks.

She also thanked Trump for his "enduring friendship" with her slain mentor, former prime minister Shinzo Abe.

Trump, on one of the busiest days of his Asia trip, began his visit to one of America's closest allies with pr...