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The Japan News/Yomiuri
The Japan News/Yomiuri
Politics
Kentaro Nakajima and Hiroshi Tajima / Yomiuri Shimbun Correspondents

New U.S. ambassador to Japan calls Japan-U.S. alliance 'bulwark' in Indo-Pacific region

U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel speaks during an interview with The Yomiuri Shimbun in Washington on Wednesday. (Credit: The Yomiuri Shimbun)

WASHINGTON -- Rahm Emanuel, who will soon arrive in Japan as the new U.S. ambassador, has expressed his intention to strengthen the bilateral alliance to realize a "free and open Indo-Pacific" through cooperation between the two countries.

​Regarding the vision of a "free and open Indo-Pacific" that Japan has advocated since 2016, Emanuel said, "It was a way of seeing the region, seeing the alliance and seeing ... our North Star, what we're building towards."

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