Japanese leader asks US to overcome 'self-doubt' about global leadership

Japan's prime minister Fumio Kishida on Thursday called on Americans to overcome their "self-doubt" as he offered a paean to US global leadership before a bitterly divided Congress. Warning of risks from the rise of China, Kishida said that Japan - stripped of its right to a military after the second world war - was determined to do more to share responsibility with its ally the United States. "As we meet here today, I detect an undercurrent of self-doubt among some Americans about what your role in the world should be," Kishida told a joint session of the House of…