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Kishida must wish he had stayed in Washington
Japan’s Prime Minister was wooed, feted and complimented during his state visit. He will get no such treatment back home.
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Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida faces his first major electoral test since a major funding scandal broke in his party.
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Gearoid Reidy
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Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s first remarks to the joint session of the US Congress were perhaps also his most heartfelt.
“I never get such nice applause from the Japanese Diet,” he laughed as he said last week, while the ovation he received at his historic address, only the second by a Tokyo leader, rang in his ears.
