In this task, you will be shown a passage. You need to write a fill-in-the-gap question based on your understanding of the events that might be inferred from the passage. Your question should be answerable based on the passage and only have one correct answer. Show the gap in your question with a _ .

President Barack Obama arrived in Japan on Wednesday for the first part of his Asia trip that started with reassuring Tokyo of U.S. support in its bitter territorial dispute with China. Obama made his first stop in Tokyo on a weeklong tour that will also take him to South Korea, Malaysia and the Philippines. Obama and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe met over what's been described as the "world's best sushi" at Sukiyabashi Jiro, a top-rated restaurant in the Ginza district. The dinner also brought out the new U.S. ambassador to Japan, Caroline Kennedy. On Thursday, Obama will start a formal state visit to the nation -- the highest designation for a foreign leader.President Obama says a set of disputed islands fall under a U.S.-Japanese treatyHe makes the comments to Japanese paper ahead of a visit to AsiaChina disputes his assertion, saying the U.S. should "respect the truth"
_ begins Asia trip with 'the best sushi I've ever had'.

You could have been forgiven for mixing up which line-up cost £230million. Long-time Premier League title favourites Manchester City were comprehensively undone by the Stoke City pair of Marko Arnautovic and Xherdan Shaqiri, whose combined price tag of £15million was half what Manuel Pellegrini paid for holding midfielder Fernandinho alone. Arnautovic scored twice inside the first 15 minutes, both brilliantly assisted by Shaqiri, as Pellegrini's side drifted badly in the swirling Britannia cross-wind. Without Vincent Kompany, Pablo Zabaleta, Yaya Toure and Sergio Aguero – all injured – the richest club in England looked bereft of leadership. Centre halves Martin Demichelis and Nicolas Otamendi rarely looked like they inhabited the same planet, let alone being team-mates for Argentina.Marko Arnautovic fired Stoke City ahead from close range on seven minutes after Xherdan Shaqiri's crossArnautovic doubled the Potters lead on 15 minutes with a neat finish following from Shaqiri's brilliant through ballStoke's No 10 came inches to scoring a first-half hat-trick before the interval but his strike hit the postVisitors played the final 16 minutes with 10 men after Fernando was forced off with a hamstring injury
_, whose former manager at Inter Milan Jose Mourinho said had the 'attitude of a child' spent full-time squabbling with Fabian Delph before resuming his celebrations.

Crippling cuts to defence spending have left Britain unable to defend itself or stand up to Russia, according to the former head of the Army. General Sir Peter Wall said the 'consequences' of the squeeze on funding is now 'playing out' in the UK's approach to dealing with Vladimir Putin. He joins a growing chorus of criticism of the refusal by any of the main parties to protect defence spending from cuts after the election, despite a pledge to increase foreign aid budgets being enshrined in law. General Sir Peter Wall said the 'consequences' of the squeeze on funding is now 'playing out' in the UK's approach to dealing with Vladimir PutinSir Peter Wall says consequences of budget cuts are now 'playing out'UK is reluctant to face up to Russia incursions into airspace and watersJoins chorus of criticism of the impact of spending cuts on the militaryCameron under pressure to commit 2% of GDP to defence under UN target

Up to 30,000 service personnel could go - with the _ likely to bear the heaviest cuts - leaving the armed forces with a combined strength of just 115,000 by the end of the decade, it predicted.