Japan Prime Minister says will have 'frank discussions' with Trump

Japan's Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said in parliament in a key policy address on Friday he will have "frank discussions" with US President-elect Donald Trump, saying that cooperation between them was vital to ensuring a "free and open Pacific".

"The Japan-US security alliance is the foundation of Japan's diplomacy and security," Ishiba said. Ishiba and the US president-elect had a "very friendly" phone conversation after Trump's election win earlier this month.

Key allies Japan and the United States are each other's top foreign investors, and 54,000 US military personnel are stationed in Japan, mostly in Okinawa.