Jeff Bezos, the Clintons and Robert De Niro join Biden for star-studded state dinner with Japan

It was a star-studded affair on Wednesday night as President Joe Biden welcomed A-listers including Robert De Niro, Tiffany Chen and Jeff Bezos to the White House for a state dinner with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida.

The president and First Lady Jill Biden hosted more than 200 guess at the glitzy event in the White House East Room, where they dined on a specially curated menu of house-cured salmon, dry-aged rib-eye steak and matcha ganache.

The guest list read like a who’s who of prominent Democratic figures, tech moguls and Biden family members.

Hollywood actor and outspoken Mr Trump critic De Niro arrived hand in hand with his girlfriend Tiffany Chen.

Former president Bill Clinton and former secretary of state Hillary Clinton made it to the top table.

Big Tech moguls Tim Cook and Jeff Bezos, who was joined by Lauren Sanchez, were also in attendance, as was JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon.

On the political and administrative aisle of the guestlist was Vice President Kamala Harris, Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen.

Several Biden family members, including granddaughter Naomi and her husband Peter Neal, were also there as were labour luminaries United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain and United Steelworkers President David McCall – whose unions have endorsed Mr Biden for reelection.

Both Mr Biden and Mr Kishida took to the stage for a lighthearted, warm address to the crowd, where the former spoke of the two nations’ “friendship” and the latter invoked an iconic phrase from Star Trek.

Speaking in English, Mr Kishida told guests at the White House that he hoped the “unshakable relationship” between his country and the US would “boldly go where no