Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida urged American business executives to boost investment in Asia’s second-largest economy tied to key technologies such as semiconductors, artificial intelligence and quantum computing.
“We very much welcome US investments to Japan to nurture cooperation between the two nations on important emerging technologies,” Kishida said at the opening of a roundtable with US business leaders in Washington on Tuesday. “Your investments will enable Japan’s economic growth — which will also be capital for more investments from Japan to the US.”