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September 19, 2023   Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s newly reshuffled cabinet has a lineup that lacks freshness due to the selection of many hopefuls on a “waiting list” for cabinet ministers recomme...

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July 10, 2023   The result was as expected. The discussions between the ruling Liberal Democratic Party and its junior coalition partner, the Komeito party, which had been discussing the relaxation ...

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May 15, 2023   Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida appeared on the cover of the May 22-29 issue of Time magazine (Asia edition). The original headline of the online version of the interview articl...

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March 27, 2023   Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida made a surprise visit to Ukraine on March 21. Although he was the last Group of Seven leader to visit Ukraine, he should be appreciated for beco...

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March 6, 2023   The raison d'etre of Japan’s House of Councilors is fundamentally called into question as Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi was absent from a meeting of Group of 20 foreign minister...

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February 27, 2023   After U.S. President Joe Biden and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni visited Kyiv in February, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is the only Group of Seven leader who has...

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January 30, 2023   Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is considering visiting Ukraine. Kishida reportedly wants to visit Ukraine because he will chair this year’s Group of Seven summit in Hiroshi...

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January 16, 2023   At a Japan-U.S. summit on January 13, U.S. President Joe Biden highly appreciated Japan’s fundamental defense buildup including the acquisition of counterstrike capabilities. “We’...

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December 12, 2022   Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has indicated a policy of raising taxes to cover some 1 trillion yen as financial resources for increasing Japan’s defense spending. While Kishida sh...

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November 21, 2022   In a photo session for the first Japan-China summit in three years that took place in Bangkok on November 17, Chinese President Xi Jinping kept smiling when shaking hands with Ja...

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