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Japan, France agree to join hands to achieve successful G-7 summit
Kishida visited France on the first leg of his weeklong tour of G-7 countries that includes Italy, Britain, Canada and the United States, to prepare for the summit in May in the western Japan city, which was devastated by a U.S. atomic bomb in August 1945. Facing severe security challenges, such as Moscow's aggression toward Ukraine and China's intensifying military activities in the Indo-Pacific region, the two leaders decided to hold bilateral security talks involving their foreign and defense ministers early this year. As a lawmaker representing Hiroshima, Kishida has expressed eagerness to pitch his vision of a ... (full story)