{"id":4274,"date":"2026-04-13T00:25:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T00:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/4274\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T00:25:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T00:25:08","slug":"japan-to-welcome-30-nato-envoys-as-trump-rattles-us-allies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/4274\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan to welcome 30 Nato envoys as Trump rattles US allies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Japan<\/a> and Nato<\/a> are drawing closer together, with 30 representatives from the transatlantic security alliance\u2019s member states set to visit Tokyo this month amid mounting concern over Washington\u2019s reliability as a security partner.<\/p>\n

The Nato envoys will reportedly hold talks on China\u2019s expanding regional influence, Russia\u2019s ongoing war in Ukraine and the implications of a more volatile global security order, according to Japanese public broadcaster NHK.<\/p>\n

\u201cA delegation of this size underlines just how important this is to both sides,\u201d said Ben Ascione, an assistant professor of politics and international relations at Waseda University in Tokyo, adding that the visit reflected \u201ca long-term trend\u201d.<\/p>\n

Japan opened a permanent mission to Nato in Brussels in January last year as it and the rest of the so-called Indo-Pacific Four \u2013 South Korea, Australia and New Zealand \u2013 have been steadily deepening cooperation with the alliance.<\/p>\n

It cannot have been lost on Tokyo that the US is no longer a reliable ally under TrumpBen Ascione, political analystJapanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi<\/a>\u2019s predecessor Fumio Kishida, in particular, put \u201ca lot of effort into building links with the alliance\u201d, Ascione said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Japan and Nato are drawing closer together, with 30 representatives from the transatlantic security alliance\u2019s member states set…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4275,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[923,596,4137,12,13,1707,4138,4139,4136,8,17,1474,1493,1922,636,657],"class_list":{"0":"post-4274","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-japan","8":"tag-australia","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-brussels","11":"tag-china","12":"tag-donald-trump","13":"tag-europe","14":"tag-global-combat-air-programme","15":"tag-indo-pacific-four","16":"tag-italy","17":"tag-japan","18":"tag-japanese","19":"tag-nato","20":"tag-new-zealand","21":"tag-north-korea","22":"tag-russia","23":"tag-south-korea"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}