Shigeru Ishiba denied he had decided to quit after a source and media reports said he planned to announce his resignation to take responsibility for a bruising upper house election defeat.

Japan's Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba recently confirmed the deal, and the country's chief trade negotiator earlier said in a Facebook post that he had visited the White House, adding the hashtag "Mission accomplished".

The president announced the trade framework – in what he said was ‘perhaps the largest Deal ever made’ – in a Truth Social post Tuesday