{"id":400886,"date":"2026-01-31T16:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T16:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/400886\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T16:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T16:34:08","slug":"starmer-invites-japan-pm-takaichi-to-uk-after-tokyo-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/400886\/","title":{"rendered":"Starmer invites Japan PM Takaichi to UK after Tokyo talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But the meeting at the Prime Minister&#8217;s Office in Tokyo comes at a tense moment for the region, following <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/crklvx2n7rzo\" class=\"ssrcss-6mgqu7-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">controversial comments from Takaichi <\/a>suggesting that Japan could be drawn into conflict between China and Taiwan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sir Keir said he and his Japanese counterpart agreed on the need to respond with &#8220;strength and clarity&#8221; to increasing instability in the world, and thanked her for  &#8220;steadfast leadership in supporting Ukraine&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ahead of a working dinner, the Japanese PM said that Sir Keir &#8220;looked well&#8221;, adding  she had been invited to his Chequers country estate later this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I look forward to our dinner in a moment, and to the meeting that I hope we will have,&#8221; Sir Keir said following the 20-minute meeting between the leaders.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He added that the UK and Japan &#8220;share vital interests and principles&#8221; and that he looked &#8220;forward to driving that forward together.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He went on to say that the two countries &#8220;have a clear interest in free and predictable trade&#8221;, saying they aimed to improve supply chains in &#8220;key areas such as critical minerals&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"But the meeting at the Prime Minister&#8217;s Office in Tokyo comes at a tense moment for the region,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":400887,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-400886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}