{"id":62888,"date":"2026-04-17T06:25:01","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T06:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/62888\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T06:25:01","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T06:25:01","slug":"from-brussels-to-tokyo-nato-delegation-maps-out-next-cooperation-steps-with-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/62888\/","title":{"rendered":"From Brussels to Tokyo \u2014\u00a0NATO delegation maps out next cooperation steps with Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When roughly 30 ambassadors to NATO descended on Tokyo this week \u2014 the largest delegation of its kind ever to visit Japan \u2014 they had a clear objective: to explore how the military alliance\u2019s long-evolving partnership with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/news\/2026\/04\/16\/japan\/politics\/nato-japan-ambassador-interview\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tokyo can be translated into tangible cooperation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">From defense industry ties to cutting-edge technologies and shared responses to emerging threats, the diplomats met with top Japanese officials during their three-day trip to discuss areas where the two sides can derive strategic benefits.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">As Europe accelerates defense investment and Japan presses ahead with its historic military buildup, two of the envoys told The Japan Times the partnership could act as a force multiplier, combining Japan\u2019s technological prowess and advanced industrial base with NATO\u2019s operational experience and expanding military requirements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When roughly 30 ambassadors to NATO descended on Tokyo this week \u2014 the largest delegation of its kind&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62889,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[104],"tags":[211,210,327,71,20316,74,34595],"class_list":["post-62888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brussels","tag-belgium","tag-brussels","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-indo-pacific","tag-nato","tag-nato-japan"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116418623839302268","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}