{"id":40641,"date":"2026-03-28T23:52:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T23:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/40641\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T23:52:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T23:52:13","slug":"after-ceasefire-us-may-count-on-japan-to-clear-mines-in-strait-of-hormuz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/40641\/","title":{"rendered":"After ceasefire, US may count on Japan to clear mines in Strait of Hormuz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/spotlight\/iran-tensions\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Iran tensions<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Last American naval minesweeper set to be retired as soon as 2027<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/9\/8.jpeg\" alt=\"20260328N Japan Etajima minesweeper\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">The Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force&#8217;s Etajima minesweeper makes a port call in Cambodia in April 2025.\u00a0(Pool photo)<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">TOKYO &#8212; The Japanese government is considering plans to help sweep\u00a0mines from the Strait of Hormuz once a ceasefire is reached in the Iran war, at a time when the U.S. Navy is planning to retire the last of its minesweeping ships.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iran tensions Last American naval minesweeper set to be retired as soon as 2027 The Japan Maritime Self-Defense&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40642,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[3065,15843,17379,102,389,13695,7174,1219,101,153],"class_list":{"0":"post-40641","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-strait-of-hormuz","8":"tag-ceasefire","9":"tag-clear","10":"tag-count","11":"tag-hormuz","12":"tag-japan","13":"tag-may","14":"tag-mines","15":"tag-strait","16":"tag-strait-of-hormuz","17":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116309494905018572","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}