been pretty much silent about from the clunking of shoes on highly polished floors prime minister shinzo abbey gave a short speech in which he expressed his gratitude the gratitude of the people of japan to the emperor and the empress for the juices they've carried out on behalf of the country and then we had a very short speech as well from the emperor himself whereby he formally abdicated from his responsibilities as emperor of japan. so that doesn't seem to have concluded the ceremony there you see. this on the over the empress with the crown princess beside him wayne hayes our correspondent in tokyo he's been watching this and wayne this was a very very stylized ritualized ceremony wasn't it everything down to the last. was full. yes exactly monti and you may say in true japanese fashion in fact as you mention an extremely brief ceremony last in just ten minutes or so inside a room in the imperio palace just as well it was indoors because it's extremely miserable conditions this evening in the japanese capital still some people have surrounded the palace to try to get a glimpse of some of

japanese prime minister shinzo albi used his visit to north america to celebrate a trade agreement the trumpet ministration had snopes together with canada's justin trudeau abbey looked back at the success of the multilateral trans-pacific partnership t p p which aims at strengthening its members against china. as he set off for a round of golf with japanese prime minister shinzo are the us president donald trump had mostly one thing on his mind trade by pressuring japanese carmakers to expand production in the u.s. trump was looking to land a winning agreement with. but our slater the japanese prime minister celebrated real trade achievements elsewhere in north america with the trust of partner in an agreement that was originally designed to include the us. when the american administration decided to pull out of the t p p because of mr obvious leadership we were able to move forward on a deal that is comprehensive and progressive that has benefited tremendously in canadian citizens japanese citizens and businesses and indeed people throughout throughout the region twelve countries signed the transpacific partnership back in two thousand and sixteen the agreem