Between the United States and japan with leaders from the Defense Department and Japanese Ministry officials. The Hudson Institute hosted this visit. Good morning and welcome to Hudson Institute. I serve as japan chair at hudson and i want to welcome our audience here at the bessy and walter Stern Policy Center in washington and i want to welcome our audience on liep and online and through cspan. On the eve of Prime Minister Fumio Kishidas historic visit to the United States on april 10, it seemed like an appropriate moment to examine the benefits of the deep and expanding u. S. And Japan Economic relationship and as all of us in this room have seen on the news reports, including by certain members of our audience here today in the press, about the impressive deliverables that will be coming out of both the u. S. Japan summit on the 10th and u. S. Japanphilippines trilateral summit on the 11th, most of the focus object the discussions will be on security issues, not economic ones. That
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Afghanistan's hard-line Islamist Taliban rulers have touted the recent signing of $6.5 billion in mining contracts as a major economic breakthrough. But experts see little prospect for the impoverished country to see any quick financial benefits.