Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe answers questions during a plenary session of the upper house of parliament in Tokyo on January 24, 2017, after US President Donald Trump decided to pull the US out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). Abe on January 24 said in parliament that he believed Trump recognised the importance of free and fair international trade. Japan ratified the TPP deal in December but Abe, a big supporter of the accord, has said without the US the TPP would not make sense. / AFP PHOTO / TORU YAMANAKA