WASHINGTON - The U.S. government on Friday congratulated former Japanese defense chief Shigeru Ishiba on winning Japan's governing party's presidential election, which sets him up to be the country's next prime minister, and expressed hope to "cultivate even closer ties" with Tokyo.
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