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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: Biden Welcome Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida for State Dinner [Watch (HLS stream): Biden Welcome Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida for State Dinner](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/YuVCU94L.m3u8) (3:44)  _Published 2024-04-11. Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida cracked jokes and invoked a touchstone of American culture as he quoted from “Star Trek” at Wednesday's state dinner, telling guests at the White House that he hoped the “unshakable relationship” between his country and the U.S. would "boldly go where no one had gone before.”_ --- Apr 12, 2024 12:40 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [Japan’s Prime Minister Kishida Steps Aside. Here’s Who Could Lead Next](/video/aTsT78Iy/) ### Japan’s Prime Minister Kishida Steps Aside. 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We've been brought together the same hopes the same values the same commitment to democracy and freedom and the dignity dignity for all and today without question or alliances literally stronger than it has ever been. But I also know that you're panting honest a stand together and everyone should know that as well committed to each other and committed to keeping building a future worthy of the highest hopes and I hope that all of our predecessors in our people dream job ladies in town, So please join me and Raise Your Glass and I don't have a class and it did you go you have one for the primest. Join me and raise your glasses to our lives to our friendship in the words of those young students in Japan to the same future. We share cheers turnover used to prime minister. The Pacific Ocean does not separate Japan and the United States writer. It's Unitas. These were the words that President Kennedy sent to prime minister. Ekeeda also hating from Hiroshima at the state luncheon held at the White House about 60 years ago. I like this line. I use it so many times that my stuff tried deleting it whenever this phrase appeared on speech to let me confused with the line from Star Trek a which you older. To boldly go where no one has gone before. George Takei who played of the USS Enterprise also has roots in Hiroshima. Mr. President, dr. 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