Japan’s PM Kishida Pledges Expanded Security Role in Asia
- ‘Free and Open Indo-Pacific Plan for Peace’ to come by spring
- Premier reinforced call for the elimination of atomic arms
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Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida vowed his country would expand its security role in Asia, and seek to bolster the rules-based order in a speech at an international security forum in Singapore.
In the first keynote presentation by a Japanese premier at the IISS Shangri-La Dialogue in eight years, Kishida on Friday said he would lay out a “Free and Open Indo-Pacific Plan for Peace” by spring.