MADRID -- Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, as the first leader of Japan to attend a NATO summit, expressed Tokyo's intention to strengthen cooperation with the alliance on Wednesday.
"An agreement was reached to raise the Japan-NATO relationship to a new level," Kishida said to reporters after the summit in Madrid. "It is of historical significance that I was able to participate in the meeting when NATO was devising its new strategic concept."
Kishida announced during the summit that Japan will drastically revise its individual partnership and cooperation program with NATO.
