Tokyo - U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Japan on Sunday as part of an Asia-Pacific tour aimed at shoring up alliances in the face of an increasingly assertive China.
The visit comes three months after President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Fumio Kishida announced what they called a new era in Japanese-U.S. relations at a summit at the White House.
Blinken and U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd A