Kishida: Japan ready to step up as U.S. 'global partner' at Biden summit

WASHINGTON/TOKYO -- On Wednesday, Fumio Kishida is scheduled to spend his 920th day as Japan's Prime Minister meeting U.S. President Joe Biden at the White House. Since 1945 only seven of Kishida's predecessors have made it to 1,000 days in office, and he is determined to become the eighth.

"I have no plans to dissolve parliament right now," he said, quickly dismissing rumors of an early general election during an interview with Nikkei Asia ahead of his historic trip to Washington, D.C. The tumult of the U.S. election season awaits him there, with Biden and Donald Trump in a dead heat to win the presidential election in November.