The Japanese government has begun making arrangements to set up a meeting between Japan's Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru and Donald Trump, after he was projected to win the US presidential election.

Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru expressed readiness to cooperate closely with Trump and raise Japan-US relations to greater heights.

He appears eager to nurture personal ties with Trump as a means of maintaining and strengthening Japan's alliance with the United States.

Some Japanese government officials believe bilateral relations are solid and unwavering, and can handle a change of power, and that the government has continued to be connected with the former president and his associates.

At the same time, they are wary of what steps Trump could take as he has confronted Japan in the fields of trade and security.

When Ishiba is reappointed as prime minister in the extraordinary session of the Diet to be convened next Monday, he will study options for a meeting with Trump, including making a stopover in the US when he attends international conferences to be held in Peru and Brazil in mid-November.