WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States must continue to play a leading role in international affairs, Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida told U.S. lawmakers on Thursday.
In the first speech to a joint meeting of the U.S. Congress by a Japanese leader in nine years, Kishida urged Americans not to doubt the importance of their country’s “pivotal” role in world affairs.
(Reporting by Patricia Zengerle, David Brunnstrom and Ismail Shakil;Editing by Chizu Nomiyama)
