By Tim Kelly, Yukiko Toyoda, John Geddie TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan is considering offering support for a $44 billion gas pipeline in Alaska as it seeks to court U.S. President Donald Trump and forestall potential trade friction,

President Trump has signed an executive order to rename the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America and revert Denali to its original name, Mount McKinley. The name changes aim to honor American greatness.

The threats from China and North Korea aren’t going anywhere, Japan is in the midst of a historic arms buildup, and a Japanese company is one of the three big investors in the newly announced “Stargate” program.

The mayors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki have invited US President Donald Trump to visit this year for the 80th anniversary of the World War II atomic bombings, officials said Wednesday.

There is an urgent need for Asian allies and partner countries to push newly elected President Donald Trump to commit to maintain a formidable American military presence in the region because no other major power can fill the U.

The Gulf of Mexico, a 218,000-square-mile oceanic basin, has been named as such for at least 400 years by European explorers and mapmakers. It spans the eastern coast of Mexico, the southeastern U.S., and the western end of Cuba, connecting to the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean.

The "Gulf of Mexico" will be shown as the "Gulf of America" to Google Maps users in the United States after the name change ordered by the Trump Administration is officially updated on the federal mapping database.

Google Maps has said it will rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America after Donald Trump ordered the change. The US tech giant said it would follow the US government in renaming the gulf, which is ringed by the US, Mexico and Cuba.

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba and President Donald Trump will discuss the Indo-Pacific region and bilateral support between Japan and the United States on Feb. 7.

Changing maps to say "Gulf of America" doesn't change history, and likely won't change what most people call the massive basin

Newly inaugurated U.S. President Donald Trump is pushing to "take back" the Panama Canal, the world's second busiest interoceanic waterway.