Prime Minister Kishida, who had visited the Philippines and Malaysia, returned to Japan Japan on the evening of May 5 after a series of schedules, including a summit meeting.
Prime Minister Kishida visited the Philippines and Malaysia on March 3 and held summit meetings and other meetings.
At the meeting with President Marcos of the Philippines, we shared the importance of a free and open international order based on the rule of law, bearing in mind China's increasing maritime expansion, and agreed to apply OSA, a new framework for providing defense equipment and other equipment to the militaries of like-minded countries, for the first time, and to provide coastal surveillance radars.
In addition, Prime Minister Anwar of Malaysia and I shared the view that we will strengthen cooperation in the field of security, including the promotion of dialogue among foreign and defense authorities.
Furthermore, in addition to promoting further economic partnerships with both countries, including the improvement of the investment environment, the two leaders confirmed their cooperation for the success of the special summit meeting between Japan and ASEAN = Association of Southeast Asian Nations to be held in Tokyo in December.
After completing a series of itineraries, Prime Minister Kishida arrived at Haneda Airport on a government plane at around 12:5 p.m. on the 10th.
Prime Minister Kishida will begin full-scale work on compiling a supplementary budget that will support the new economic measures formulated last week.