Outgoing Japanese PM mulls skipping speech at U.N. General Assembly

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is considering cutting short his trip to New York next month and not addressing the U.N. General Assembly due to a scheduling conflict with his ruling party's leadership election, sources close to him said Wednesday.Kishida, whose popularity has plunged amid a political funds scandal in his Liberal Democratic Party, said earlier this month that he will not run in its presidential election slated for Sept. 27, marking the end of his three-year term as premier.Japan has been allocated a slot for a speech on the afternoon of Sept. 26 in New York. But as Ki…READ FULL ARTICLE