April 17 (UPI) -- The second Takaichi-Trump summit in Washington represented a shift away from the era of sweeping rhetoric and grand communiqués toward a more pragmatic "functionalism under pressure". Rather than focusing on stylistic flourishes, the meeting produced a bundle of concrete deliverables designed to anchor the U.S.-Japan alliance in industrial capacity, energy security, and critical minerals at a time when global supply chains are under intense strain. The Hormuz crisis: setting