On November 18, 2016, President-Elect Trump would meet with Japan’s prime minister, Shinzo Abe, at Trump Tower. Photographs of the encounter between the two leaders showed Trump’s daughter Ivanka in attendance. Jared Kushner joined the group as well. At the time of the meeting, Ivanka Trump was in negotiations to license her clothing brand to a big Japanese retailer. That retailer was owned by a Japanese bank, which was in turn wholly owned by the Japanese government.24 (The deal would ultimately fail.25)
