However, Japan will also pay a considerable price for this agreement. In the aforementioned social media post, Trump boasted, “Japan will invest, at my direction, $550 Billion Dollars into the United States, which will receive 90% of the Profits,” and “This Deal will create Hundreds of Thousands of Jobs”. The Japan Invest America Initiative, a huge investment plan agreed upon by Trump and Ryosei Akazawa (the minister in charge of economic revitalization who was appointed tariff negotiator by Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba), was presented in a May draft with an estimated investment amount of about US$100 billion in the US. However, this amount was increased to US$400 billion. Then, Trump personally requested US$550 billion during the meeting, and this figure was agreed upon.
