{"id":452459,"date":"2026-05-30T08:49:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T08:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/452459\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T08:49:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T08:49:09","slug":"japan-australia-new-zealand-defense-chiefs-discuss-mogami-frigate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/452459\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan, Australia, New Zealand Defense Chiefs Discuss Mogami Frigate"},"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\tMay 30, 2026 16:30 (JST)<\/p>\n<p>Singapore, May 30 (Jiji Press)&#8211;The defense ministers of Japan, Australia and New Zealand at a meeting in Singapore on Saturday discussed New Zealand&#8217;s possible introduction of an upgraded model of the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force&#8217;s Mogami-class frigate.<\/p>\n<p>It was the first time for the three countries to hold a meeting of their defense ministers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a very important opportunity for prosperity, peace and stability in the Indo-Pacific region,&#8221; Japanese Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi said at the meeting with his Australian and New Zealand counterparts, Richard Marles and Chris Penk.<\/p>\n<p>If New Zealand introduces the upgraded Mogami frigate, that will improve interoperability among the three countries, he also said.<\/p>\n<p>At a press conference after the trilateral meeting, Koizumi said that Japan hopes to advance talks with New Zealand on concluding a pact on the transfer of defense equipment and technologies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"photo_box_c_v2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/3013825.jpg\" class=\"fancybox\" rel=\"gallery\" data-libid=\"3013825\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-bottom: 5px; border: 0; padding: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/3013825.jpg\" data-libid=\"3013825\"\/><\/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 May 30, 2026 16:30 (JST) Singapore, May 30 (Jiji Press)&#8211;The defense ministers of Japan, Australia&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":452460,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[17974,111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-452459","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\/452459","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=452459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/452460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}