Japan will unveil an action plan by next spring to advance a "free and open" Indo-Pacific, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said Friday as he expressed his firm resolve to defend the rules-based international order amid China's growing clout and Russia's war on Ukraine.In a keynote speech at the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore, Kishida said he has a strong sense of alarm that "Ukraine today may be East Asia tomorrow," vowing that Japan will play an even more active role in countering any unilateral attempts to change the status quo by force, without singling out China.As the first Japanese lea…READ FULL ARTICLE