With the Upper House election taking place in less than two months, most Japanese prime ministers would shift their attention inward.
Yet Prime Minister Fumio Kishida remains steadfastly focused on Japan’s leadership role abroad. After a whirlwind Golden Week tour across the globe, Kishida returned to Japan to host a bilateral summit with U.S. President Joe Biden and a meeting of "the Quad,” with their Australian and Indian counterparts.
And in a couple of weeks, he will deliver the keynote address at the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore. All the while, he has kept up his attention and involvement in responding to Russia’s war against Ukraine.