{"id":228301,"date":"2025-07-01T03:54:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T03:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/228301\/"},"modified":"2025-07-01T03:54:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T03:54:09","slug":"no-time-to-lose-germany-aims-to-boost-defense-industrial-ties-with-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/228301\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018No time to lose\u2019: Germany aims to boost defense-industrial ties with Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Faced with what it views as a growing Russian threat and a potential U.S. troop reduction in Europe, Germany is aiming to swiftly ramp up military-industrial cooperation with Japan as it seeks trustworthy partners to help shore up Europe&#8217;s defenses, the country\u2019s envoy to Tokyo has said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have no time to lose,\u201d German Ambassador Petra Sigmund told The Japan Times.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe threat we&#8217;re facing is real as Russia might decide to test our ability to defend the sovereignty of European and NATO countries,\u201d she said in an interview last week, less than a month after Germany\u2019s top military official warned that Moscow could be ready to attack NATO countries by 2029 \u2014 or earlier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Faced with what it views as a growing Russian threat and a potential U.S. troop reduction in Europe,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":228302,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[8953,473,2000,299,1824,89805,10406,332,65590],"class_list":{"0":"post-228301","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-budgets","9":"tag-defense","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-germany","13":"tag-germany-japan-relations","14":"tag-indo-pacific","15":"tag-russia","16":"tag-sdf"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114775960259542755","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}