Japan PM visits Australia to step up military, energy ties


              Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, left, is assisted into a car as he arrives in Perth to begin a 3-day-visit to Australia on Friday, Oct. 21, 2020. (Trevor Collens/Pool via AP)
            
              Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, second right, is met by Patrick Gorman and Allanah McTiernan, left, as he arrives in Perth to begin a 3-day-visit to Australia on Friday, Oct. 21, 2020. (Trevor Collens/Pool via AP)
            
              Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida,  right, is met by member of federal parliament Patrick Gorman as he arrives in Perth to begin a 3-day-visit to Australia on Friday, Oct. 21, 2022. (Trevor Collens/Pool Photo via AP)
            
              Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida arrives in Perth to begin a 3-day-visit to Australia on Friday, Oct. 21, 2022. (Trevor Collens/Pool via AP)
            
              Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida arrives in Perth to begin a 3-day-visit to Australia, on Friday, Oct. 21, 2022. (Trevor Collens/Pool via AP)
            
              Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, center, waves as his departure for Australia, at Haneda international airport in Tokyo, Friday, Oct. 21, 2022.  Kishida, heading to Australia for talks with his Australian counterpart, Anthony Albanese, said Friday that he wants to bolster military and energy cooperation between the two countries that are increasingly getting closer over shared concern about China's rise.(Kyodo News via AP)