Kishida in Kantei: What can the Indo-Pacific partners expect from Japan?
3 years, 2 months ago

Kishida in Kantei: What can the Indo-Pacific partners expect from Japan?

Hindustan Times  

Fumio Kishida will walk into Kantei as prime minister on October 4 following a high-voltage political race, marked by murky factional political culture of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party. As the longest-serving foreign minister in the post-war era in Shinzo Abe cabinet, and LDP’s former policy research council chief, Kishida has hands-on experience in pursuing Tokyo’s national interest in the United States -China-Japan triangle. Culling out from the political debate in the run-up to the party election, what can Indo-Pacific partners expect from Kishida on key verticals — Japan’s role in the post-Covid-19 order; Free and Open Indo-Pacific ; national and economic security? Today’s Quad — which maps a collaborative agenda delivering rich dividends in creating public goods — is yet another strategic plank anchored in Japan’s proposition of weaving a “democratic security diamond” a decade back. As Japan embraces a proactive role in regional security, Kishida will have to invest in rebuilding trust with Seoul, since security coordination between US-Japan-South Korea is key to maintaining strategic stability in the Peninsula.

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With former stance a potential liability, Tokyo adopts damage limitation policy: China Daily editorial
5 months ago

With former stance a potential liability, Tokyo adopts damage limitation policy: China Daily editorial

China Daily  

Over the past more than three years, the Fumio Kishida government of Japan has strained ties with Beijing with its willingness to act as a proxy for Washington in the Asia-Pacific. Be it in the East and South China seas and the Taiwan Strait or the US' "chip war" targeting China, Tokyo seemed confident that the US' anti-China stance would …

Pacific island leaders agree to enhance Japan’s role in the region amid growing China influence
5 months ago

Pacific island leaders agree to enhance Japan’s role in the region amid growing China influence

Associated Press  

TOKYO — Leaders of 18 Pacific island nations and areas agreed to an enhanced role of Japan in the region’s development while opposing any attempted coercive activity, in a joint declaration adopted at their summit Thursday, as Tokyo seeks greater engagement to counter China’s influence. The Pacific Islands Leaders Meeting, or PALM, launched under a Japanese initiative in 1997, has …

Japan’s Kishida, ahead of US trip, seeks stronger military ties with Washington and other partners
8 months, 2 weeks ago

Japan’s Kishida, ahead of US trip, seeks stronger military ties with Washington and other partners

Associated Press  

TOKYO — Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said Friday he wants to strengthen military and weapons development cooperation with the United States as well as with other countries such as the Philippines, as he prepares for a visit to the U.S. next week to meet with President Joe Biden. “Defense industry cooperation between Japan and the United States, as well …

The Indo-Pacific: What’s in a Name?
8 months, 2 weeks ago

The Indo-Pacific: What’s in a Name?

The Diplomat  

After nearly a half century, the Wilson Center in Washington, D.C., bid adieu to its Asia Program. Ultimately, the christening of the Indo-Pacific Program speaks to a bigger dynamic: how evolving U.S. strategic interests and challenges are reshaping the agenda and indeed the raison d’etre of think tanks focused on Asia. The rise of AUKUS between Australia, the United Kingdom …

PM Kishida’s Indo-Pacific legacy vs politics in Japan
11 months, 2 weeks ago

PM Kishida’s Indo-Pacific legacy vs politics in Japan

Hindustan Times  

The conversation on global power politics will continue to be dominated by wars, as the Russia-Ukraine and Israel-Hamas conflicts spill over to 2024 shaping the Euro-Atlantic and West Asian security architecture respectively. Meanwhile, the Japanese prime minister Fumio Kishida will aim to secure another term as the Liberal Democratic Party’s president in September even as the domestic political pulse presents …

India and Japan Converge in Southeast Asia
1 year, 1 month ago

India and Japan Converge in Southeast Asia

The Hindu  

Upon dropping a series of Chinese-led infrastructure projects due to sustainability and geopolitical concerns, the Philippines is now redirecting its attention to Japan and India as alternative sources of development and security. Thus, Japan and India’s bolstered engagements in Southeast Asia complement the interest of resident countries like the Philippines to lessen their susceptibility to China’s expanding economic clout and …

China, Japan to focus on 'common interests', reaffirm 'strategic relationship'
1 year, 1 month ago

China, Japan to focus on 'common interests', reaffirm 'strategic relationship'

Firstpost  

In a joint statement in 2008, Japan and China agreed to pursue a “mutually beneficial relationship based on common strategic interests” designed to ensure frequent leadership exchanges on issues such as security and economic cooperation. Chinese President Xi Jinping and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida expressed their commitment to fostering mutually beneficial relations during their first face-to-face talks in a …

From Follower to Leader: Japan’s Emergence as a Fully-Fledged Regional Security Actor
1 year, 5 months ago

From Follower to Leader: Japan’s Emergence as a Fully-Fledged Regional Security Actor

The Diplomat  

Japan no longer needs U.S. pressure to undertake a radical expansion in its defense capabilities and security commitments. Japan, like other regional allies of the United States such as South Korea and Australia, realizes that it has to “step up” to maintain the military power balance in the region, given the decline in U.S. power relative to its main protagonist …

The China-Japan Relationship Continues in the Spirit of Abe Shinzo
1 year, 7 months ago

The China-Japan Relationship Continues in the Spirit of Abe Shinzo

The Diplomat  

The relationship between China and Japan goes back to antiquity, not surprisingly given the geographical proximity of the two countries. Abe’s genius was to recognize early on – even during his first stint in office, well before such views had become the mainstream – that China had started down a path of intense “competition.” Beijing is striving to achieve dominance …

No ‘sayonara’ for Japan in Indo-Pacific geopolitics
1 year, 8 months ago

No ‘sayonara’ for Japan in Indo-Pacific geopolitics

The Hindu  

The visit by the Japanese Prime Minister, Fumio Kishida, to India, in March 2023, during which he engaged with his Indian counterpart, Narendra Modi, on global and bilateral issues, focused on cooperation between the G-7 and the G-20. Besides this, Mr. Kishida also unveiled “Japan’s New Plan for a Free and Open Indo-Pacific” and exchanged views about deepening the “Japan-India …

Tightrope walk: on the India and Japan relationship and challenges from geopolitical issues
1 year, 9 months ago

Tightrope walk: on the India and Japan relationship and challenges from geopolitical issues

The Hindu  

Since 2006, the Prime Ministers of India and Japan have exchanged visits for their “annual summit”, a meeting that has steered the course of this bilateral relationship. However, it was not the India-Japan Special Strategic and Global Partnership that was at the heart of the Japan Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s mission during his quick “official visit” to Delhi this week. …

India’s best friend in Asia
1 year, 9 months ago

India’s best friend in Asia

Hindustan Times  

To judge a country’s relationship with India, apply a simple metric. And on that yardstick too, Tokyo would rank as arguably New Delhi’s closest friend in Asia given their shared anxieties about Beijing’s belligerence and the need to maintain stability across the Indo-Pacific. The two countries had substantive bilateral engagements and discussed how they can work together given the uniqueness …

Japan PM Kishida announces new Indo-Pacific plan in India
1 year, 9 months ago

Japan PM Kishida announces new Indo-Pacific plan in India

Associated Press  

NEW DELHI — Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Monday invited his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi for the Group of Seven summit in May and announced action plans for a new Indo-Pacific initiative aimed at countering China’s influence in the region. China’s territorial claims in the East China and South China seas have rattled Beijing’s smaller neighbors in Southeast Asia …

Need to take a common stand on maintaining international order, says Japanese PM
1 year, 9 months ago

Need to take a common stand on maintaining international order, says Japanese PM

The Hindu  

Russia’s war in Ukraine “obliges” Japan and India to take a common stand on the importance of maintaining the international order, said visiting Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, who discussed coordinating the agendas of the G-7, to be held in Hiroshima in May and the G-20 to be held in Delhi in September on a number of issues including debt …

India indispensable for peace and stability in Indo-Pacific: Japanese PM
1 year, 9 months ago

India indispensable for peace and stability in Indo-Pacific: Japanese PM

The Hindu  

India is indispensable for peace and stability in the Indo-Pacific and no country should use force or coercion in trying to drive their territorial claims, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said on Monday after unveiling his plan for the region. Delivering the 41st Sapru House lecture, Mr. Kishida also strongly condemned Russia's aggression against Ukraine and said global principles of …

Japan PM Fumio Kishida to announce new Indo-Pacific plan in India
1 year, 9 months ago

Japan PM Fumio Kishida to announce new Indo-Pacific plan in India

Live Mint  

Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Monday invited his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi for the Group of Seven major industrial nations summit in May and was later expected to announce a new plan for a free and open Indo-Pacific aimed at countering China's growing influence in the region. On his two-day trip to India, Fumio Kishida said PM Narendra Modi …

PM Modi holds talks with Japanese counterpart Fumio Kishida
1 year, 9 months ago

PM Modi holds talks with Japanese counterpart Fumio Kishida

The Hindu  

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on March 20 held wide-ranging talks with his Japanese counterpart Fumio Kishida to expand India-Japan strategic partnership for a peaceful, stable and prosperous post-Covid world. The Japanese Prime Minister arrived in Delhi at around 8 a.m. on March 20 for a nearly 27-hour visit to ramp up bilateral ties in a range of areas and explore …

Free Indo-Pacific, China Threat, Expanding Ties: Here's Why Japan PM's Visit is Significant
1 year, 9 months ago

Free Indo-Pacific, China Threat, Expanding Ties: Here's Why Japan PM's Visit is Significant

News 18  

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida arrived in India on Monday to explore ways to boost bilateral ties in areas of defence, security, trade and high technologies. The Japanese prime minister arrived in Delhi at around 8 am on Monday on a nearly 27-hour visit to ramp up bilateral ties in a range of areas and discuss how convergence between India’s …

Japan PM Fumio Kishida arrives in India; here’s what’s on agenda
1 year, 9 months ago

Japan PM Fumio Kishida arrives in India; here’s what’s on agenda

Live Mint  

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is set to arrive in India for a two-day trip on today i.e. The Prime minister's office also added, "I also intend to further strengthen the Special Strategic and Global Partnership between India and Japan. In a press briefing on Thursday, Ministry of External Affairs official spokesperson Arindam Bagchi said that Japan is a "very …

Japan's new thrust in the Indo-Pacific | Explained
1 year, 9 months ago

Japan's new thrust in the Indo-Pacific | Explained

India Today  

Japan Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s two-day visit to India on March 20-21 comes exactly a year after his last visit. He mentioned the importance of securing airspace, possibly as a direct consequence of the provocations that Japan’s Air Self Defence Force has faced in recent years as a result of air operations by the Chinese PLA Air Force and the …

Japan PM Kishida to visit India on March 20, 2023; G-7, G-20, Indo-Pacific ties on agenda
1 year, 9 months ago

Japan PM Kishida to visit India on March 20, 2023; G-7, G-20, Indo-Pacific ties on agenda

The Hindu  

Synchronising plans for the G7 summit in Hiroshima in May this year and the G20 summit in Delhi in September will be on the agenda for Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s 24-hour visit to Delhi on March 19, said a senior Japanese official. Mr. Kishida will meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi and also deliver a major speech on Japan’s Indo-Pacific …

Japan PM Kishida Likely to Unveil 'Indo-Pacific Plan for Peace' During Visit to India
1 year, 9 months ago

Japan PM Kishida Likely to Unveil 'Indo-Pacific Plan for Peace' During Visit to India

News 18  

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is expected to unveil his plan for a “free and open Indo-Pacific” with a focus on India’s increasingly significant role in the region during his visit to New Delhi on Monday. The evolving situation in the Indo-Pacific in the backdrop of China’s rising military assertiveness is also likely to figure in wide-ranging talks between Prime …

Will Japan Succeed in Its ‘Global South’ Diplomacy?
1 year, 9 months ago

Will Japan Succeed in Its ‘Global South’ Diplomacy?

The Diplomat  

When the 211th Diet was convened earlier this year, Japan’s Prime Minister Kishida Fumio gave a major policy speech announcing Tokyo’s intention to strengthen its engagement with countries in the so-called Global South. The “free and open Indo-Pacific”, launched by then-Prime Minister Abe at the Tokyo International Conference on African Development held in Kenya in August 2016, is probably the …

US ‘fully committed’ to Japan alliance, Biden tells Kishida
1 year, 11 months ago

US ‘fully committed’ to Japan alliance, Biden tells Kishida

Al Jazeera  

US President Joe Biden is hosting Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida at the White House, as Kishida ends a week-long, diplomatic push to bolster partnerships with allies in Europe and North America in the face of growing pressure from China. In advance of his discussions with Biden, the Japanese prime minister on Friday also met US Vice President Kamala Harris, …

How will India-Japan ties evolve after Abe?
2 years, 4 months ago

How will India-Japan ties evolve after Abe?

Hindustan Times  

Conversation dominating the strategic community since Shinzo Abe’s assassination is anchored on two axes. Anchored on strong strategic logic and trust, India’s centrality in the Japanese policy frame will endure as both countries mobilise collective capacities for sustainable solutions in a post-pandemic world — be it high-tech supply chains, securing maritime global commons, supporting high quality infrastructure, green innovation for …

QUAD Meet: What Is Indo-Pacific Economic Framework & How Does It Concern India?
2 years, 7 months ago

QUAD Meet: What Is Indo-Pacific Economic Framework & How Does It Concern India?

The Quint  

While an analysis of the full details is yet to be done, the IPEF appears to be an alternative to the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which the US quit in 2017 under its former president, Donald Trump. The objective would be to establish a platform that would see separate negotiations among participants on varying issues of interest, taking into account their individual …

US announces new Indo-Pacific Economic Framework to counter China, India signatory
2 years, 7 months ago

US announces new Indo-Pacific Economic Framework to counter China, India signatory

India TV News  

Highlights The White House says this will help the United States work more closely with Asian economies Issues including supply chains, digital trade, clean energy, anticorruption efforts can be discussed Along with the United States, the other 11 countries represent 40% of world GDP President Joe Biden on Monday launched the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework -- a new trade deal with …

China says Quad, AUKUS are ‘cliques’ in U.S. Indo-Pacific strategy
2 years, 10 months ago

China says Quad, AUKUS are ‘cliques’ in U.S. Indo-Pacific strategy

The Hindu  

China has equated the India, U.S., Australia, Japan Quad grouping with the AUKUS defence pact, calling both “exclusive cliques” part of the Biden administration’s “ill-intentioned” Indo-Pacific strategy. External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar, in Melbourne last week for the Quad Foreign Ministers meet, rejected that criticism, saying on Friday, “Our record, actions and stance are fairly clear and by criticising them …

US strategy for Indo-Pacific stresses alliances on China
2 years, 10 months ago

US strategy for Indo-Pacific stresses alliances on China

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — A new Biden administration strategy for the Indo-Pacific emphasizes not going it alone in dealing with China’s growing influence and ambitions, underscoring the administration’s efforts to strengthen security cooperation and other ties with allies and partners in the region. The Biden administration has yet to release a strategy paper laying out thinking for U.S. policy toward China and …

Japan votes for strong government under Kishida and this will shape strategic equation in Indo-Pacific
3 years, 1 month ago

Japan votes for strong government under Kishida and this will shape strategic equation in Indo-Pacific

Firstpost  

Fumio Kishida and the LDP aim to double Japan’s defence spending to around 2 percent of the GDP to deal with China and North Korea, thereby signalling the course of the direction that they intend to tread upon Japan’s ruling coalition led by the Liberal Democratic Party has managed to retain a comfortable majority in the powerful lower House of …

India and US breathe a sigh of relief as Fumio Kishida secures control over Japan
3 years, 1 month ago

India and US breathe a sigh of relief as Fumio Kishida secures control over Japan

Firstpost  

Fumio Kishida can breathe a little more easily in the Kantei after his party’s surprisingly strong showing in the recently concluded Japanese general election. Kishida’s markedly lower approval rating than his predecessors and lingering dissatisfaction with the ruling Liberal Democratic Party’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic led many to conclude that the LDP was heading for an electoral setback. The …

Kishida vows to lead with ‘trust and empathy’ to fix Japan
3 years, 2 months ago

Kishida vows to lead with ‘trust and empathy’ to fix Japan

Associated Press  

TOKYO — In his first policy speech, new Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida promised Friday to strengthen the country’s response to the coronavirus pandemic in case of another resurgence and revive its battered economy while bolstering defenses against threats from China and North Korea. Tasked with the crucial mission of rallying public support for the governing party ahead of national …

Shinzo Abe redefined India-Japan ties | Opinion
4 years, 3 months ago

Shinzo Abe redefined India-Japan ties | Opinion

Hindustan Times  

From capturing global strategic imagination with his “Confluence of the Two Seas” speech in the Indian Parliament to articulating the India-Japan Indo-Pacific Vision 2025 — the Shinzo Abe era is defined by high-powered diplomacy that delivered. Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Yamanakako village, Yamanashi prefecture, October 28, 2018 As the challenges to the liberal …

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