{"id":736498,"date":"2026-04-18T10:30:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T10:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/736498\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T10:30:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T10:30:18","slug":"japan-seals-largest-ever-defense-contract-with-frigate-sale-to-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/736498\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan seals largest-ever defense contract with frigate sale to Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a major breakthrough for Japan\u2019s defense industry, Tokyo on Saturday reached a landmark agreement with Canberra to supply the first three of a planned fleet of 11 upgraded Mogami-class frigates to the Australian Navy, the largest defense export contract in Japan\u2019s postwar history.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Signed in Melbourne by Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi and his Australian counterpart, Richard Marles, the multibillion dollar deal underscores the deepening strategic alignment between the quasi-allies and heralds significantly expanded military and industrial cooperation.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cWe will see the first of these frigates come to Australia in 2029 and in the early 2030s the general-purpose frigate, the Mogami class, will be the backbone of continuous naval shipbuilding in Western Australia,\u201d Marles said in a ceremony aboard the Maritime Self-Defense Force\u2019s Mogami-class frigate Kumano, which was in Australia to take part in the Kakadu multilateral maritime exercise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a major breakthrough for Japan\u2019s defense industry, Tokyo on Saturday reached a landmark agreement with Canberra to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":736499,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5],"tags":[4740,304245,262,39752,149419,50,84700,200106,11282,103],"class_list":["post-736498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world","tag-australia","tag-australia-japan-relations","tag-defense","tag-defense-ministry","tag-indo-pacific","tag-news","tag-richard-marles","tag-sdf","tag-shinjiro-koizumi","tag-world"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116425250367613503","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=736498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/736499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=736498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=736498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=736498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}