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Foreign Pool Report #14 Dinner Guest List

From
Mineko Tokito
Sent
Thursday, March 19, 2026 8:57 PM

White House has provided the dinner guest list for tonight:

A dinner in honor of Her Excellency TAKAICHI Sanae, Prime Minister of Japan

Thursday, March 19, 2026

The President of the United States

Her Excellency TAKAICHI Sanae, Prime Minister of Japan

Mr. Andrew Abboud

Dr. Miriam Adelson

Mr. AKAHORI Takeshi, Senior Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs

His Excellency AKAZAWA Ryosei, Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry

Mr. Jim Allen

Mr. Cristiano Amon

Mr. ARAI Masayoshi, Director-General, Trade Policy Bureau, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry

Mr. ARIMA Yutaka, Director-General, Foreign Policy Bureau, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

The Honorable Scott Bessent, Secretary of the Treasury

The Honorable James Blair

The Honorable Pam Bondi, Attorney General

Mr. Greg Brockman and Mrs. Anna Brockman

The Honorable Doug Burgum, Secretary of the Interior

The Honorable Lori Chavez-DeRemer, Secretary of Labor

The Honorable Sean Duffy, Secretary of Transportation

Mr. Larry Fink

The Honorable George Glass, Ambassador of the United States to Japan and Mrs. Amy Glass

Mr. David Goeckeler

The Honorable Jamieson Greer, United States Trade Representative

The Honorable Bill Hagerty, United States Senator from Tennessee and Mrs. Christine Hagerty

Mr. HAYASHI Makoto, Executive Secretary to the Prime Minister

The Honorable Pete Hegseth, Secretary of War

Mr. ICHIKAWA Keiichi, National Security Advisor

Mr. IIDA Yuji, Executive Secretary to the Prime Minister

Mr. IIJIMA Isao, Special Advisor to the Cabinet

Mr. Takajiro Ishikawa

Mr. KANO Koji, Vice Minister of Defense for International Affairs

Dr. Alex Karp

Mr. Arvind Krishna

Mr. KUMAGAI Naoki, Director General of the North American Affairs Bureau in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

The Honorable Kelly Loeffler, Administrator of the Small Business Administration

Mr. Palmer Luckey

The Honorable Howard Lutnick, Secretary of Commerce

Mr. MATANO Motosada, Director-General, Economic Affairs Bureau, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Mr. Hideki Matsuyama

The Honorable Linda McMahon, Secretary of Education

Mr. Sanjay Mehrotra

Mr. Michael Miebach

Mr. Jason Miller

Mr. Jeff Miller

The Honorable Stephen Miller

Mr. MIMURA Atsushi, Vice Minister of Finance for International Affairs, Ministry of Finance

His Excellency MOTEGI Toshimitsu, Minister of Foreign Affairs

Mr. NAMAZU Hiroyuki, Senior Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Japan

Mr. Michael Needham

Mr. Tetsuo Ogawa

Mr. Kelly Ortberg

Mr. OZAKI Masanao, Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary

Mr. Sundar Pichai

Mr. Ted Pick

The Honorable James Risch, United States Senator from Idaho and Mrs. Vicki Risch

Mr. Horacio Rozanski

The Honorable Marco Rubio, Secretary of State

Mr. SAIKI Kozo, Cabinet Secretary for Public Affairs

Mr. Shyam Sankar

Mr. Masayoshi Son

Mr. James Taiclet

Mr. TAKAZAWA Yoshinori, Director, First North America Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Mr. Charlie Takeuchi

Mr. Hock Tan

The Honorable Scott Turner, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development

The Vice President of the United States

The Honorable Russell Vought, Director of the Office of Management and Budget

The Honorable Chris Wright, Secretary of Energy

His Excellency YAMADA Shigeo, Ambassador of Japan to the United States of America

The Honorable Lee Zeldin, Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency

Best,

Mineko

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Mineko Tokito Abe

Senior Washington Reporter

The Yomiuri Shimbun

General Bureau of the Americas

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