{"id":370966,"date":"2026-04-02T09:22:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T09:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/370966\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T09:22:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T09:22:17","slug":"japan-lawmakers-group-asks-israel-to-seek-peace-agreement-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/370966\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan Lawmakers Group Asks Israel to Seek Peace Agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"csp-catelogo\">\n\t\t\t\t\tNewsfrom Japan\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"c-cate c-cate0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nippon.com\/en\/articlelist.html?f=ncf-category&amp;s=Politics\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Politics<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\tApr 2, 2026 16:01 (JST)<\/p>\n<p>Tokyo, April 2 (Jiji Press)&#8211;A suprapartisan group of Japanese lawmakers promoting relations with Israel on Wednesday asked the Israeli side to seek a peace agreement with Iran.<\/p>\n<p>A prolonged closure of the Strait of Hormuz will undermine people&#8217;s lives, former Japanese Defense Minister Gen Nakatani, who heads the Japan-Israel Parliamentary Friendship League, said at a meeting with Israeli Ambassador to Japan Gilad Cohen in Tokyo. &#8220;We hope for de-escalation and a peace agreement.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But Cohen stressed the need for strikes against Iran, saying that the country is surely developing nuclear weapons. He added that the U.S.-Israeli military campaign against Iran complies with international law.<\/p>\n<p>Cohen expressed hope that Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi will pay a visit to Israel, according to a participant in the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>END<\/p>\n<p class=\"photo_box_c_v2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/2980777.jpg\" class=\"fancybox\" rel=\"gallery\" data-libid=\"2980777\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-bottom: 5px; border: 0; padding: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/2980777.jpg\" data-libid=\"2980777\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>[Copyright The Jiji Press, Ltd.]<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-keywords\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t <a href=\"\">Jiji Press<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Newsfrom Japan Politics Apr 2, 2026 16:01 (JST) Tokyo, April 2 (Jiji Press)&#8211;A suprapartisan group of Japanese lawmakers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":370875,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,32924,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-370966","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-israel","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-jiji-press","11":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}