Japan, U.S. officials agree on PM Kishida's early visit to meet Biden

Senior Japanese and U.S. diplomats agreed Monday to aim for an early visit to the United States by Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida for a meeting with President Joe Biden, with Tokyo eyeing a November date for the trip, according to Japanese government sources.Vice Foreign Minister Takeo Mori reached the agreement during a meeting in Tokyo with Daniel Kritenbrink, U.S. assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs, the sources said.In a separate meeting, Kritenbrink and Keiichi Ichikawa, director general of the Foreign Ministry's North American Affairs Bureau, discuss…READ FULL ARTICLE