{"id":865507,"date":"2026-04-01T19:26:25","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T19:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/865507\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T19:26:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T19:26:25","slug":"japan-and-france-agree-to-coordinate-on-hormuz-security-and-iran-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/865507\/","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":865508,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5309],"tags":[521,2000,299,36,774,837,2122,20277,225840,300,49],"class_list":["post-865507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-france","tag-asia","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-france","tag-iran","tag-israel","tag-japan","tag-mena","tag-middle-east-conflicts","tag-north-america","tag-united-states"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116331098294813436","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865507","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=865507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/865508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=865507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=865507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=865507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}