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© KYODOKishida's debut on world stage offers few clues about his foreign policy
By Miya Tanaka EDINBURGH, Scotland©2025 GPlusMedia Inc.
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Jacko
Few clues? What about no clue?
vaxatharian
He's probably as much at a loss as the rest of us.
as_the_crow_flies
Clueless, yes. Turning up at a climate conference by jetting halfway round the world for a few hours. Really impressive. It also seems Japan didn't get the memo, as the entire article talks about guns, geopolitical jockeying and the like, when the conference is about the climate. CLI-MATE crisis. And yet it seems the Japanese delegation wanted to pop in for half a day to show leadership. Yeah, right. And talk about a completely unrelated subject. Nice one, Kishida! Start as you mean to go on.
Paul
That's because Abe hasn't told him what to do yet!
Paul
Considering the fact that just over 55% of the voters have bothered to vote, I can't consider it a good star. What it means is that people have given up!
Pukey2
He's probably going to be shunted to the back again, just like Suga.
With the predicted victory in the elections last weekend, seems like both Abe and Suga resigned all for nothing!
Sven Asai
I guess, not he but we will have to pay all of his ‘commitment’.
Numan
Like I said on a previous article, "ill-prepared for all of them!"
diagonalslip
absolutely meaningless.... oh, but hang on, he's an expert on Japan.....
kurisupisu
24 hours is just the right time for the 2 jets to be refueled cleaned, resupplied and ready to go back to Japan for Kishida’s quarantine to begin-he won’t be taking the bus back from the airport
and sat in a roomful of foreigners where is Kishida’s mask?
wanderlust
He'll just do what the bureaucrats in the 'Gameshow', sorry, 'Gaimushou' tell him to do.
itsonlyrocknroll
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, could have simply fallen back on skype. face time after all.
Mark
All this negativity, reminds me of how everyone including myself said Japan will never get COVID under control !! well it did and beat the rest of the world to the goal, so stop eating your tongue boys and girls because you just never know.
OssanAmerica
How is Japan's foreign policy and security concerns relevant at an international climate conference?
itsonlyrocknroll
Yes OssanAmerica, there is a role, of sorts however the cost, and the relevance to international climate chance is obscure.
kurisupisu
Exactly!
A_cross
Japan should of course lead the world in environmental concern, just like it did in 1997 when hosting the Kyoto Protocol ........ and what became of that?
So a flying visit was perhaps the diplomatic version of extending two fingers to all the nations who agreed a quarter-century ago that we faced a climate emergency, and then returned to their fossil fuels and profligate consumption.
Why should anyone think they get the message this time?
shogun36
The other word leaders were probably confused when they met Kishida.
They asked each other:
Was that that same guy from the Olympics?
Must be, it was only about 3 months ago.
Abe right? No…..Aso. No.
Never mind, just bow and smile, it doesn’t matter.
ReasonandWisdomNippon
You don't show up like Xi of China. People complain ask questions.
You do show up like Kishida. People still complain.
Does it matter he just got the job???
Nope. Expectations is to fix all problems immediately at once.
Iron Lad
Kishida is gonna play it smooth.
Hope he bolsters domestic defense manufacturers.
Peter Neil
To satisfy the think tank geniuses and the press on the world stage, maybe he should have done a little tap dance or sung a Beyonce song or something?
Yrral
Nobody take Japanese leaders seriously, because they probably will not be around in 6 month
Yrral
Not ready for primetime Prime Minister
DrTOM1957
I read the comments and I will admit I really don't understand all of the complaints about PM Kishida. The Olympics weren't a failure, compared to the U.S. the COVID plan has been gangbuster and Kishida seems to be doing better than Biden and I am a Democrat who supports Biden.
Maybe cut PM Kishida some slack and give him some time. Well that's just my 2 cents.
Aly Rustom
Nah Thomas- just the LDP BS Propaganda machine at work again trying desperately hard to make Kishida into something special and competent of which he is neither