{"id":30250,"date":"2023-03-21T06:22:40","date_gmt":"2023-03-21T06:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=30250"},"modified":"2023-03-21T06:22:42","modified_gmt":"2023-03-21T06:22:42","slug":"japan-pm-visits-ukraine-and-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2023\/03\/21\/japan-pm-visits-ukraine-and-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan PM visits Ukraine and India"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida began a surprise visit to Ukraine early Tuesday, hours after Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in neighboring Russia for a three-day visit. The dueling summits come as the longtime rivals are on diplomatic offensives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kishida will meet President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the Ukrainian capital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

He will \u201cshow respect to the courage and patience of the Ukrainian people who are standing up to defend their homeland under President Zelenskyy\u2019s leadership, and show solidarity and unwavering support for Ukraine as head of Japan and chairman of G-7,\u201d during his visit to Ukraine, the Japanese Foreign Ministry said in announcing his trip to Kyiv.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the talks, Kishida will show his \u201cabsolute rejection of Russia\u2019s one-sided change to the status quo by invasion and force, and to affirm his commitment to defend the rules-based international order,\u201d the ministry\u2019s statement said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Russian President Vladimir Putin warmly welcomed Xi<\/strong>to the Kremlin on a visit both nations describe as an opportunity to deepen their \u201cno-limits friendship.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Japanese public television channel NTV showed Kishida riding a train from Poland heading to Kyiv. His surprise trip to Ukraine comes just hours after he\u00a0met with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi<\/strong>\u00a0in New Delhi, and the week after a\u00a0breakthrough summit<\/strong>\u00a0with South Korean President Yoon Suk Yoel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In New Delhi, Kishida called for developing and Global South countries to raise their voices to defend the rules-based international order and help stop Russia\u2019s war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Japan, which has territorial disputes over islands with both China and Russia, is particularly concerned about the close relationship between Beijing and Moscow, which have conducted joint military exercises near Japan\u2019s coasts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kishida, who is to chair the Group of Seven summit in May, is the only G-7 leader who hasn\u2019t visited Ukraine and was under pressure to do so at home. U.S. President Joe Biden took a similar route to visit Kyiv last month, just before the first anniversary of Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Due to limitations of Japan\u2019s pacifist constitution, his trip was arranged secretly. Kishida is Japan\u2019s first postwar leader to enter a war zone. Kishida, invited by Zelenskyy in January to visit Kyiv, was also asked before his trip to India about a rumor of his possible trip at the end of March, denied it and said nothing concrete has been decided.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Japan has joined the United States and European nations in sanctioning Russia over its invasion and providing humanitarian and economic support for Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Japan was quick to react because it fears the possible impact of a war in East Asia, where China\u2019s military has grown increasingly assertive and has escalated tensions around self-ruled Taiwan, which Beijing claims as its territory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kishida is expected to offer continuing support for Ukraine when he meets with Zelenskyy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Television footage on NTV showed Kishida getting on a train from the Polish station of Przemysl near the border with Ukraine, with a number of officials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Due to its pacifist principles, Japan\u2019s support for Ukraine has also been limited to non-combative military equipment such as helmets, bulletproof vests and drones, and humanitarian supplies including generators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Japan has contributed more than $7 billion to Ukraine, and accepted more than 2,000 displaced Ukrainians and helped them with housing assistance and support for jobs and education, a rare move in a country that is known for its strict immigration policy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida began a surprise visit to Ukraine early Tuesday, hours after Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in neighboring Russia for a three-day visit. The dueling summits come as the longtime rivals are on diplomatic offensives. Kishida will meet President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the Ukrainian capital. He will \u201cshow respect to the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":30253,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[461,12],"tags":[4294,5274,6263,5178,9204,11583,7489,7421,12257,12246,5846,7445,423,9505,7058,11715,6094,5440,8342,10954,5252,2959,9326,7407,2471,1152,5342,9974,5572,11289,5340,6479,12085,11973,2627,837,3805,11243,3174,71,3457,5217,10553,2711,9616,5180,5555,9262,694,11255,5251,3954,594,7898,8327,7932],"class_list":["post-30250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-world-news","tag-and-india","tag-asia","tag-beijing","tag-biden","tag-border","tag-capital","tag-chairman","tag-chinese","tag-delhi","tag-diplomatic","tag-displaced","tag-drones","tag-education","tag-european","tag-fumio-kishida","tag-housing","tag-immigration","tag-india","tag-indian","tag-international","tag-invasion","tag-japan","tag-japanese","tag-jobs","tag-joe-biden","tag-kremlin","tag-kyiv","tag-leadership","tag-military","tag-modi","tag-moscow","tag-narendra-modi","tag-nations","tag-one","tag-pm","tag-poland","tag-president","tag-president-xi","tag-prime-minister","tag-putin","tag-russia","tag-russian","tag-south-korean","tag-taiwan","tag-train","tag-ukraine","tag-ukrainian","tag-united-states","tag-vladimir-putin","tag-volodymyr-zelenskyy","tag-war","tag-will","tag-who","tag-xi","tag-xi-jinping","tag-zelenskyy"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}