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.
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