Japan PM Kishida mulls attending NATO summit in July: gov't sources

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is making arrangements to attend a NATO summit scheduled for July, government sources said Wednesday, as the Asian country has deepened ties with the trans-Atlantic alliance amid global security concerns.On the sidelines of the summit in Lithuania, Kishida is expected to hold bilateral talks with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg to discuss the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's plan to open a liaison office in Tokyo, the sources said.Kishida and Stoltenberg are also likely to map out a new Japan-NATO security cooperation document, called the In…READ FULL ARTICLE