Morimoto Scandal Continues, Trump's Tariffs and Ambassador Orr | Tokyo on Fire

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This week on Tokyo on Fire: Joining us this week is President Obama's longest serving Ambassador, Robert M. Orr, former Ambassador to the Asian Development Bank. We discuss various Asia relations and the ways recent events have impacted them. To what degree will President Trump’s cuts to the State Department impact America’s soft power in the region? BREAKING NEWS: Publishing in the Washington Post this evening, Ambassador Orr joins nearly 200 former U.S. Ambassadors colleagues in sending an open letter to Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Corker and Ranking Member Bob Menendez urging the Senate to address these issues and #DefendDiplomacy. Read the letter here: https://defenddiplomacy.org/sign-the-letter/ President Trump imposes tariffs on $60 Billion of Chinese imports, throwing markets into chaos over the prospect of impending trade wars. Japan is one also thrown under that bus! How much will this impact Japan-U.S. Relations? Earlier this month, Tax Agency chief Nobuhisa Sagawa resigned over the Moritomo Gakuen scandal. After much arm-twisting, Sagawa testified on-air in Diet hearings on Tuesday. This scandal could take down Prime Minister Abe, but Sagawa took the blame (for now.) Will the Prime Minister's poll numbers recover ... or will this affect his goal of amending the constitution? Join host Timothy Langley and Michael Cucek in this discussion!