{"id":637427,"date":"2026-06-14T00:03:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T00:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/637427\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T00:03:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T00:03:09","slug":"uk-and-japan-set-to-agree-investment-deal-worth-18bn-trade-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/637427\/","title":{"rendered":"UK and Japan set to agree investment deal worth \u00a318bn | Trade policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The UK and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/japan\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Japan<\/a> are set to agree \u00a318bn worth of investment, creating tens of thousands of jobs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Prime minister <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/keir-starmer\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Keir Starmer<\/a> will welcome his Japanese counterpart Sanae Takaichi to Downing Street on Sunday ahead of the G7 summit next week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">More than 10 commercial and government agreements are expected to be signed including a \u00a39bn offshore wind deal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">It will also include Rolls-Royce deepening its collaboration with Japan\u2019s Atomic Energy Agency, Downing Street said, signing a new agreement to develop next-generation technologies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Japanese and British business leaders will join for a discussion on future opportunities for economic growth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Starmer said: \u201cThese landmark agreements will bring multibillion-pound investment into the UK, creating tens of thousands of new jobs and driving new developments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cAs <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/g7\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">G7<\/a> economies and close security partners, we are working together with Japan on some of the most innovative technology in the world, harnessing the best of British and Japanese research and industry to deliver growth and security to every corner of the United Kingdom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Discussions will also include helping UK defence firms access Japanese investment, No 10 said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">It comes after Starmer\u2019s leadership survival plans were rocked by the shock resignation of John Healey as defence secretary over a dispute about long-term funding for the military.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Healey was joined in his exit from government by armed forces minister Al Carns, as well as two parliamentary aides, heaping pressure on the prime minister, who is already facing the threat of a leadership challenge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The UK and Japan are set to agree \u00a318bn worth of investment, creating tens of thousands of jobs.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":637428,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-637427","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\/637427","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=637427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/637428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}