Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will visit Ottawa next week to discuss trade and security, Justin Trudeau’s office said on Thursday.
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“I look forward to welcoming Prime Minister Kishida to Canada to further strengthen our cooperation and achieve results for the citizens of Canada and Japan,” Trudeau said in a statement.
Mr. Kishida’s visit to North American territory will begin on Monday. The meeting between Messrs. Trudeau and Kishida will be held on Thursday, January 12, followed by a meeting of the Japanese leader with US President Joe Biden the next day in Washington.
In December, Japan unveiled a major new defense policy that put an end to defense doctrine inherited from the end of World War II by approving for the first time a strategic plan aimed at countering China’s growing influence in the Indo-Pacific region.
Not far from Canada’s Indo-Pacific strategy announced later this year, the Japanese plan calls for massive defense investments. The two countries are defending a vision of the Indo-Pacific region “free and open,” Ottawa says, reiterating a plan formulated by allies in October.
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Mr. Kishida had previously visited Canada from 2014 to 2017 as Japan’s foreign minister under Shinzo Abe, a former prime minister who was assassinated last July.
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