{"id":1584,"date":"2026-04-01T18:17:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T18:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/1584\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T18:17:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T18:17:06","slug":"japan-and-france-agree-to-coordinate-on-hormuz-security-and-iran-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/1584\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan and France agree to coordinate on Hormuz security and Iran war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japan, which normally gets around 90 per cent of its oil from the Middle East, has begun drawing on its oil reserves to cushion the economic blow.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking alongside Takaichi, Macron said he shared her position on the need to restore freedom of navigation in the strait.<\/p>\n<p>France has held talks with dozens of countries as it seeks proposals for a mission to reopen the waterway once the conflict ends. Japan has said it could consider dispatching minesweepers, though the scope of any role would be constrained <a aria-label=\"content\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bairdmaritime.com\/security\/naval\/trumps-hormuz-request-forces-a-hard-look-at-japans-pacifist-identity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">by its pacifist constitution<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The two leaders also said they would pursue closer security ties in the Indo-Pacific and signed agreements on cooperation in critical mineral supply chains, civilian nuclear technology and artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by Tim Kelly and Sudip Kar-Gupta; Editing by Andrew Heavens and Emelia Sithole-Matarise)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Japan, which normally gets around 90 per cent of its oil from the Middle East, has begun drawing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1585,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1517,73,5,50,63,558,1539,1538,1540,187],"class_list":["post-1584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-france","tag-asia","tag-europe","tag-france","tag-iran","tag-israel","tag-japan","tag-mena","tag-middle-east-conflicts","tag-north-america","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}