Japanese PM and spouse land in US ahead of state visit

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and his spouse Yuko Kishida land at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, near Washington, DC, ahead of an official state visit with US President Biden at the White House on 10th April.

During his April 8-14 trip to the U.S., Kishida will hold talks with Biden at the White House on Wednesday, followed by a trilateral summit with Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos the next day.

Kishida is the first Japanese leader to visit Washington as a state guest since then-Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in 2015, who revised the interpretation of Japan’s pacifist Constitution to allow its self-defense-only principle to also cover its ally, the United States.