LONDON: On May 24, Sri Lanka President Ranil Wickremesinghe arrived on a three-day official visit to Japan, his second visit to the country, having attended the state funeral of former prime minister Shinzo Abe last September.

This would also be President Wickremesinghe's second summit with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, the first having been on the sidelines of the Shinzo Abe funeral, signaling the importance of Japan in Sri Lanka's foreign policy rethinking and a move away from over-reliance on China.

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