U.S. President Joe Biden on Wednesday commended outgoing Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida for transforming the country's role in the global security field and helping form closer trilateral relations involving South Korea."Guided by unflinching courage and moral clarity, Prime Minister Kishida has transformed Japan's role in the world," Biden said in a statement.During his tenure, which began in October 2021, Kishida worked to drastically increase annual defense outlays and advance policy revisions to allow the Japanese Self-Defense Forces more options in the event of a contingency, ev…READ FULL ARTICLE