{"id":39419,"date":"2026-06-12T08:51:59","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T08:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/39419\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T08:51:59","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T08:51:59","slug":"japan-welcomed-trump-with-car-show-featuring-ford-f-150-pickup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/39419\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan Welcomed Trump With Car Show Featuring Ford F-150 Pickup"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of America’s favorite trucks, the Ford F-150<\/a>, greeted President Donald Trump during his meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi in Tokyo.<\/p>\n

At least three American cars, including the Ford F-150 pickup truck, were parked on the grounds of Tokyo’s Akasaka Palace ahead of the leaders’ meeting, per a picture by the Associated Press.<\/p>\n

This comes after Reuters reported last week that Takaichi finalized a purchase package ahead of her meeting with Trump, which included soybeans, gas, and a fleet of Ford F-150 pickup trucks.<\/p>\n

“She has good taste. That’s a hot truck,” Trump told reporters on Air Force One on Saturday while en route to Asia.<\/p>\n

Ford, the White House, and the Japanese embassy in Washington, DC, did not respond to requests for comment from Business Insider.<\/p>\n

The F-150 is Ford’s top-selling pickup truck. On Thursday, Ford said in a press release that it will “increase F-150 and F-Series Super Duty production by more than 50,000 trucks in 2026.” Ford said the boost was needed to make up for production losses<\/a> due to a fire at one of its suppliers’ aluminum plants.<\/p>\n

This wouldn’t be the first time Trump has viewed a car display while in office.<\/p>\n

Trump organized a White House event<\/a> with Tesla CEO Elon Musk in March. As part of the event, a fleet of Tesla vehicles was parked on the south lawn of the White House. Trump bought a Model S at the event, per multiple media reports, and said he would purchase a Cybertruck for his granddaughter, Kai.<\/p>\n

In July, the US and Japan struck a trade deal, with the US lowering its tariffs on Japan to 15% from 25%.<\/p>\n

Ford CEO Jim Farley<\/a> criticized the deal, telling Bloomberg on July 30 that the tariff cuts would give Japanese automakers a “meaningful” cost advantage.<\/p>\n

Farley said the reduced tariffs, as well as Japan’s lower labor costs and favorable exchange rates, “really advantage their export.” For instance, a Toyota 4Runner would be $10,000 cheaper than a Ford Bronco made in Michigan, he added.<\/p>\n

Trump and Takaichi signed two agreements, one on trade and another on critical minerals, on Tuesday. <\/p>\n

“I want to just let you know, anytime you have any question, any doubt, anything you want, any favors you need, anything I can do to help Japan, we will be there,” Trump told Takaichi on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of America’s favorite trucks, the Ford F-150, greeted President Donald Trump during his meeting with Japanese Prime…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39420,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[217,857,215,1460,28934,7248,28931,28932,8,214,216,28933,27264,2299,7538,14577,453,25,6813],"class_list":["post-39419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-business-insider","tag-business-of-japan","tag-event","tag-favorite-truck","tag-fleet","tag-ford","tag-ford-f-150-pickup","tag-japan","tag-japans-business","tag-japanese-business","tag-july","tag-meeting","tag-takaichi","tag-tariff","tag-trade-deal","tag-trump","tag-us","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}