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Published Tue, Apr 18, 2017 · 09:50 PM

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THE US and Japan launched their first regular "economic dialogue" in Tokyo on Tuesday amid signs of impatience on Washington's part for a trade agreement with Japan that will provide a model for the kind of bilateral deals President Donald Trump prefers over multilateral pacts.

"Mr Trump envisioned this as a mechanism for enhancing bilateral commercial relations between the US and Japan, and achieving results in the near future," US Vice-President Mike Pence told Japan's finance minister Taro Aso at the dialogues.

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