Japanese PM Sanae Takaichi to meet top Vietnam leaders in Hanoi

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HANOI: Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi will meet top Vietnamese leaders in Hanoi on Saturday (May 2), with Japanese media saying she will make a speech touting a “free and open” Indo-Pacific region. The trip is Takaichi’s first to Vietnam since becoming prime minister in October and she aims to deepen bilateral cooperation on energy security, supply chain resilience and technological innovation, according to Vietnamese state media reports. She will meet Saturday with Prime Minister Le Minh Hung as well as top leader To Lam, the Communist Party boss who last month also became president. Japan is Vietnam’s largest provider…