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Fumio Kishida may be a former prime minister now, but in the last few days he has reminded everyone that he is still very much part of the global elite’s social circuit and Japan’s soft-power story. The headline moment came when pop royalty and political royalty flew straight into his living room: according to ABC News and India Today, Katy Perry and former Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau visited Kishida and his wife Yuko in Tokyo this week, posing for a cozy group photo beside a Christmas tree that Kishida himself posted on X. In his caption, he warmly called Perry Trudeau’s partner and reminisced about the days when he and Trudeau, both in office, “worked together to strengthen bilateral relations, including formulating the Japan-Canada Action Plan,” framing the lunch not as a fan moment but as the continuation of a serious diplomatic friendship. ABC News notes that Trudeau replied online, thanking Kishida for his “continued commitment to the international rules-based order,” which is a striking phrase to be attaching to a retired Japanese leader in a year when he technically holds no formal power.

Entertainment outlets from Fox News to India Today and KATV jumped on the images, but the gossip angle hides something biographically important: even out of office, Kishida remains a symbolic node where culture, diplomacy, and liberal internationalist politics intersect. Fox News emphasizes that the lunch was a “high-profile” stop in the middle of Perry’s Japanese tour, while India Today underlines that this was the moment Perry and Trudeau went Instagram official as a couple, with Kishida effectively cast as their respectable chaperone turned supporting character in a global celebrity narrative. That is not policy, but for the Kishida biography file it cements his soft-launch into the world of post-premiership statesmen who trade on networks, reputation and Instagram cameos rather than cabinet meetings.

At the same time, strategic analysts have continued to frame Kishida’s earlier warnings that “Ukraine today may be East Asia tomorrow” as an intellectual anchor for Japan’s harder line on China and Taiwan; the Center for Strategic and International Studies recently cited that phrase while dissecting the current Takaichi government’s clash with Beijing. That ongoing reassessment of his legacy suggests that, while the paparazzi focus on who he is lunching with in Tokyo, policy circles are still debating how his tenure reframed Japan’s security doctrine.

There are, so far, no credible reports in major Japanese or international outlets of Kishida engaging in new business ventures or partisan maneuvers behind the scenes this week; any talk that he is plotting an imminent comeback remains pure speculation and is not backed by verifiable reporting.

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