Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe holds a joint news conference with U.S. President Donald Trump (not pictured), at Akasaka Palace in Tokyo, Japan May 27, 2019. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
TOKYO (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's call for changes to the decades-old U.S.-Japan security treaty could complicate Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's drive to revise Japan's pacifist constitution.
Trump told a news conference on Saturday after a Group of 20 (G20) summit in Japan that the 1960 treaty - the linchpin of Japan's defence policies - was "unfair" and should be changed. He added he was not thinking of withdrawing from the pact.
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