Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is gradually drawing an outline for his administration¡¯s foreign policy.
In his New Year¡¯s address, Kishida said he ¡°will advance ¡®realism diplomacy for a new era,¡¯ taking as its three pillars the importance of universal values, efforts to resolve global challenges and efforts to resolutely and fully defend the lives and livelihoods of the Japanese people.¡±
He first used a form of the phrase ¡°realism diplomacy for a new era¡± in a structured way in a speech he made a week earlier, on Dec. 22. ¡°A policy group called Kochikai, where I was nurtured as a politician, has long upheld what we call realism diplomacy,¡± he said.
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