Takaichi vows more effort to keep Asia ‘free and open’

HANOI: Japan’s prime minister vowed on Saturday to do more to ensure a “free and open Indo-Pacific”, using a speech in communist Vietnam to tout a regional strategy that has long rankled neighbouring China. “I am renewing my determination to fulfil Japan’s responsibilities and to play an even more proactive role than ever before in building an international order based on freedom, openness, divers