{"id":392134,"date":"2026-04-22T13:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T13:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/392134\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T13:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T13:02:08","slug":"japan-new-zealand-leaders-reaffirm-cooperation-over-middle-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/392134\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan, New Zealand Leaders Reaffirm Cooperation over Middle East"},"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 22, 2026 20:52 (JST)<\/p>\n<p>Tokyo, April 22 (Jiji Press)&#8211;Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi and her New Zealand counterpart, Christopher Luxon, on Wednesday reaffirmed their countries&#8217; close cooperation in efforts to help de-escalate tensions in the Middle East, including ensuring safe navigation through the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n<p>During their 15-minute phone talks, the two leaders agreed that ensuring stable supplies of energy and essential materials is important.<\/p>\n<p>Takaichi briefed Luxon on the revisions to the operational guidelines for Japan&#8217;s three principles on defense equipment transfers. Implemented on Tuesday, the changes allow the country to export lethal equipment such as fighter jets and destroyers. Luxon welcomed Takaichi&#8217;s briefing.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the two leaders agreed to deepen bilateral relations in security and other areas, including cooperation for a free and open Indo-Pacific.<\/p>\n<p>END<\/p>\n<p class=\"photo_box_c_v2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/2992032.jpg\" class=\"fancybox\" rel=\"gallery\" data-libid=\"2992032\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-bottom: 5px; border: 0; padding: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/2992032.jpg\" data-libid=\"2992032\"\/><\/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 22, 2026 20:52 (JST) Tokyo, April 22 (Jiji Press)&#8211;Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":392135,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[17974,111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-392134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-jiji-press","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}