TOKYO -- The U.S. should return to the broad cross-Pacific free trade agreement it helped to forge, Japan's Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi said on Saturday, as rising geopolitical tensions in the Indo-Pacific make strengthening cooperation a priority.
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Japanese Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi speaks at the Mount Fuji Dialogue in Tokyo on Oct. 22. (Photo by Kosuke Imamura)
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