Japan premier's visit to Ukraine signals 'strong solidarity' of the West.

ISTANBUL -- Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's trip to war-hit Ukraine 'signaled strong solidarity' of the West with Kyiv, according to experts who spoke to Anadolu.

'The timing of the visit is also symbolic,' said Jingdong Yuan, an international affairs scholar at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), referring to Kishida's meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv earlier this week.

Kishida met Zelensky 'exactly' when Chinese President Xi Jinping was in Moscow meeting with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, he said.

Taiwanese academic Chienyu Shih...