{"id":644915,"date":"2026-10-13T07:48:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T07:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/644915\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T07:48:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T07:48:11","slug":"takaichi-pledges-support-for-the-icc-and-its-japanese-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/644915\/","title":{"rendered":"Takaichi pledges support for the ICC and its Japanese president"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on Tuesday vowed to continue to back the International Criminal Court and its president, Japanese national Tomoko Akane, after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/news\/2026\/10\/10\/world\/icc-us-sanctions\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday imposed fresh sanctions on the ICC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJapan has consistently supported the International Criminal Court and will continue to do so,\u201d Takaichi told lawmakers during questioning in parliament.<\/p>\n<p>The prime minister referred to her administration\u2019s swift response on Friday to the U.S. decision to sanction the court, which she has said is \u201cincompatible\u201d with Japan\u2019s position.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on Tuesday vowed to continue to back the International Criminal Court and its president,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":644916,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[54,42,4784,43,23071,273905,40,38,41,39,4374,20253],"class_list":["post-644915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-donald-trump","tag-headlines","tag-icc","tag-news","tag-sanae-takaichi","tag-tomoko-akane","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-u-s","tag-u-s-japan-relations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644915","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=644915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/644916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}