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Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, left, is greeted by his Polish host, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, right, ahead of their talks on regional security, war in Ukraine and bilateral cooperations in Warsaw, Poland, Tuesday, July 11, 2023. Kishida made a stop in Warsaw on his way to NATO summit in Vilnius, Lithuania. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Japan’s leader holds security, business talks in Poland on his way to NATO summit

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Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, second left at rear, speaks during a news conference at the prime minister's office in Tokyo, Wednesday, June 21, 2023. (Takashi Aoyama/Pool Photo via AP)

Japan’s Kishida says he will attend NATO leaders’ summit, stresses need for dialogue with China

By Mari Yamaguchi - Associated Press

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida waves as he visits a port in Wakayama, western Japan to cheer his ruling party's candidate in a local election, on April 15, 2023. Japan's National Police Agency said in a report Thursday, June 1, 2023 that flaws in basic security such as an absence of metal detectors and bag checks allowed an attacker to enter a campaign crowd unnoticed and throw a pipe bomb at Prime Minister Kishida in April. (Kyodo News via AP, File)

Japan police say flaws in basic security allowed attacker to throw pipe bomb at prime minister

By Mari Yamaguchi - Associated Press

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, right, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, center, talk as they walk with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, left, prior to a working session on Ukraine during the G7 Summit in Hiroshima, western Japan, Sunday, May 21, 2023. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, POOL)

G7 ends with Ukraine in focus as Zelenskyy meets world leaders and Russia claims disputed gains

By Adam Schreck, Foster Klug and Zeke Miller - Associated Press

From left to right, European Council President Charles Michel, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, French President Emmanuel Macron, Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, U.S. President Joe Biden, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen lay flower wreaths at the cenotaph for Atomic Bomb Victims in the Peace Memorial Park as part of the G7 Hiroshima Summit in Hiroshima, Japan, May 19, 2023. (Franck Robichon/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Analysis: Japanese PM faces dilemma at G7 as he balances anti-nuke goals with reality of threats

By Foster Klug - Associated Press

From left, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, U.S. President Joe Biden, Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni, European Council President Charles Michel, French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz walk to get into place to participate in a wreath laying ceremony at the Peace Memorial Park as part of the G7 Hiroshima Summit in Hiroshima, western Japan Friday, May 19, 2023. (Kenny Holston/Pool Photo via AP)

Atomic bomb survivors look to G7 summit in Hiroshima as a ‘sliver of hope’ for nuclear disarmament

By Mari Yamaguchi - Associated Press

Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida gestures to President Joe Biden, left, as they walk to a bilateral meeting in Hiroshima, Japan, Thursday, May 18, 2023, ahead of the start of the G-7 Summit. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Biden arrives in Hiroshima for G-7 talks overshadowed by the debt limit crisis

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden, center, sits with Secretary of State Antony Blinken, second left, during a bilateral meeting with Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, opposite, in Hiroshima, Japan, Thursday, May 18, 2023, ahead of the start of the G7 Summit. (Kiyoshi Ota/Pool Photo via AP)

Joining the club? Possible South Korean entry to G7 raises questions

By Andrew Salmon - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden, left, reacts as he meets with Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in Hiroshima, Japan, Thursday, May 18, 2023, ahead of the start of the G-7 Summit. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Biden to consult with Japan’s Kishida ahead of Group of Seven summit in Hiroshima

By JOSh Boak, Zeke Miller and Mari Yamaguchi - Associated Press

South Korean Foreign Minister Park Jin, center, poses for a photo with Mikio Sasaki, chairman of the Japan-Korea Economic Association, right, and Kim Yoon, chairman of the Korea-Japan Economic Association, left, ahead of their meeting at the Foreign Ministry in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, May 15, 2023. (Kim Min-Hee/Pool Photo via AP)

South Korean president urges expanded technology cooperation with Japan

By Kim Tong-hyung - Associated Press

Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida speaks during an interview with foreign media members at the prime minister's office on April 20, 2023, in Tokyo. For the summit of the leaders of the Group of Seven wealth democracies starting on May 19 in Hiroshima, Kishida has also invited eight other guest countries: South Korea; Australia; India; Brazil; Vietnam; Indonesia; Comoros and the Cook Islands. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File)

Guest nations at the G-7 reflect outreach to developing countries, worries over China, Russia

By Hyung-Jin Kim and Mari Yamaguchi - Associated Press

From left, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, U.S. President Joe Biden and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi are greeted by Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, right, during their arrival to the Quad leaders summit at Kantei Palace, May 24, 2022, in Tokyo. Biden has an ambitious agenda when he sets off later this week on an eight-day trip to the Indo-Pacific. For part of his trip Biden will travel to Australia for a summit with fellow Quad leaders. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Ambitious agenda for Biden on upcoming three-nation Indo-Pacific trip as debt default looms at home

By Aamer Madhani - Associated Press

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, center, leaves after meeting with business leaders at a hotel in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, May 8, 2023. (Seo Dae-yeon/Yonhap via AP)

Yoon, Kishida vow better Seoul-Tokyo ties following summit

By Kim Tong-Hyung - Associated Press

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, right, and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida attend a joint press conference after their meeting at the presidential office in Seoul Sunday, May 7, 2023. The leaders of South Korea and Japan met Sunday for their second summit in less than two months, as they push to mend long-running historical grievances and boost ties in the face of North Korea’s nuclear program and other regional challenges. (Jung Yeon-je/Pool Photo via AP)

Japan PM Kishida comes bearing gifts in ice-breaking South Korea summit

By Andrew Salmon - The Washington Times

In this photo provided by South Korea Presidential Office, Takeo Akiba, left, Japan's National Security Adviser shakes hands with Cho Tae-yong, South Korean National Security Adviser, right, in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, May 3, 2023. (South Korea Presidential Office via AP)

S. Korean, Japanese officials meet ahead of leaders’ summit

By Kim Tong-Hyung - Associated Press

Chairperson of the National Public Safety Commission Koichi Tani speaks to reporters in Tokyo Wednesday, April 26, 2023. Tani has come under fire for his remark that he enjoyed eel rice so much that he kept eating even when his agency informed him of Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's narrow escape from a pipe bomb attack two weeks ago. (Kyodo News via AP)

When told of Kishida attack, safety chief kept eating eel

By Mari Yamaguchi - Associated Press

Senior member of the Japan Alliance for LGBT Legislation, Natsuo Hayashi, third left, along with other LGBTQ activist groups' leaders, speaks to the media, holding copies of their Pride 7 communique, in Tokyo, Japan, Friday, April 21, 2023. The LGBTQ activist groups handed their first communique to a minister of awareness promotion, demanding Japan enact anti-discrimination law and legalize same-sex marriage to raise their human rights conditions to the international standard and line with six other Group of Seven countries ahead of the G-7 summit Japan hosts in May. (AP Photo/Shuji Kajiyama)

Japan LGBTQ groups urge government to guarantee equality

By Mari Yamaguchi - Associated Press

This photo shows a "masakaki" ritual offering sent by Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, center, and another ritual offering by one of his cabinet members on the occasion of an annual Shinto spring festival of rites at the shrine in Tokyo, Friday, April 21, 2023. The offering reads, "Prime Minister Fumio Kishida." Kishida donated ritual offerings Friday to the Tokyo shrine viewed by Chinese and Koreans as a symbol of Japanese wartime aggression. Kishida donated “masakaki" ornaments of the Shinto religion to mark Yasukuni Shrine's spring festival. (Fumine Tsutabayashi/Kyodo News via AP)

Japan PM sends offerings to controversial Tokyo shrine

By Mari Yamaguchi - Associated Press

Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida poses for photographers after an interview with foreign media members at the Prime Minister's official residence Thursday, April 20, 2023, in Tokyo. Kishida denounced a pipe bomb attack at a campaign event he attended last weekend and pledged to review security procedures to ensure safety for dignitaries visiting the country for the Group of Seven summit he will host in May. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

Japan PM denounces attack, vows security review before G7

By Mari Yamaguchi - Associated Press

A man who was later identified as Ryuji Kimura is arrested after what appeared to be a pipe bomb was thrown at Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida during his visit at a port in Wakayama, western Japan, Saturday, April 15, 2023. Kimura, who allegedly threw a pipe bomb at Kishida at a campaign venue, has complained about Japan’s election system and filed a damages suit against the government and criticized the prime minister, according to media reports and his possible social media postings. (Kyodo News via AP) **FILE**

Suspect in Japan PM attack may have had election grudge

By Mari Yamaguchi - Associated Press