“It is a new age in Japan-Canada relations” is how a senior foreign minister official described Trudeau’s visit Friday. Expectations are high for Trudeau’s visit because “the Japanese are enamoured of this prime minister,” said Stewart Beck, a former Canadian diplomat and president of the Asia-Pacific Foundation of Canada. TOKYO — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s little kerfuffle in House of Commons may have got a lot of attention outside Canada, but it hasn’t registered in Japan. The visit to Hiroshima is also thought likely to lead to a similar, groundbreaking trip by Abe to Pearl Harbour. “Canada can play a truth to power role because it has no claims on the islands in dispute,” he said.

Source: National Post May 20, 2016 17:11 UTC