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Japan`s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida delivers a keynote address at the Shangri-La Dialogue summit in Singapore on June 10, 2022. (AFP/Roslan Rahman)
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apanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida visited Australia on Saturday, where he is expected to ink a revamped security deal with his Australian counterpart to address China's rapidly growing military clout.
Kishida met Anthony Albanese for talks to finalize an agreement to share more sensitive intelligence and deepen military cooperation.
"The Japan and Australian relationship on security issues has built up for many years," a Japanese foreign ministry official said ahead of the meeting in the western city of Perth.
"We hope that this visit will be an opportunity to further deepen security cooperation."
It is the first visit of a Japanese prime minister to Australia since 2018.
The two Pacific nations are expected to focus on sharing intelligence – particularly signals and geospatial intelligence gleaned from electronic eavesdropping and high-tech satellites.
Neither country has extensive foreign spy networks or armies of human assets overseas -- Japan has no foreign spy agency equivalent to America's CIA, Britain's MI6 or even Australia's much smaller agency ASIO.
