{"id":638398,"date":"2026-06-14T15:09:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T15:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/638398\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T15:09:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T15:09:10","slug":"london-tokyo-agree-24-bn-investment-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/638398\/","title":{"rendered":"London, Tokyo agree $24-bn investment deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/c247090835d1e0b786d0f9960ea8c061.jpeg\" alt=\"British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi held talks at Downing Street ahead of them both going to a G7 summit in France that starts Monday (Toby Shepheard)\" loading=\"eager\" height=\"512\" width=\"768\" class=\"yf-lglytj  loaded\"\/> British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi held talks at Downing Street ahead of them both going to a G7 summit in France that starts Monday (Toby Shepheard)  \u00b7 Toby Shepheard\/POOL\/AFP    <\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Britain and Japan on Sunday sealed a sweeping economic and technological partnership, expected to generate over \u00a318 billion ($24 billion) in investment, during a visit to London by Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Takaichi held talks at his Downing Street office, ahead of them attending a G7 summit in France which begins on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">In total, more than 10 trade agreements were signed, including a \u00a39-billion offshore wind farm project, as Starmer hailed as &#8220;a new era of cooperation between our two countries&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">The meeting also included a roundtable discussion with industry representatives from both nations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">The partnership includes a \u00a0strengthening of collaboration between Rolls-Royce and Japan&#8217;s Atomic Energy Agency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">The two countries also announced their intention to launch the UK-Japan Frontier Tech Partnership (FTP), a technology partnership aimed at seeing British research\u00a0translated into\u00a0scalable\u00a0technology\u00a0with Japanese investment\u00a0in areas including AI and semiconductors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">A formal production agreement will link the British Semiconductor Centre to the newly founded Japanese chipmaker Rapidus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">On the defence front, the two leaders reaffirmed their commitment to the Global Combat Air Programme (GCAP), which aims to develop a supersonic next-generation fighter jet and which Starmer said was at the heart of the bilateral relationship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">The GCAP is an international military programme launched in 2022 by Britain, Italy and Japan which aims to develop a next-generation warplane by 2035, replacing the Eurofighter Typhoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Total trade between the United Kingdom and Japan is currently worth around \u00a3140 billion, according to the UK government.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">adm\/har\/rmb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi held talks at Downing Street ahead of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":638399,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[198447,215523,59,57,58,386,7745,420,50,86762,215521,215522,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-638398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-british-prime-minister","tag-g7-summit","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-japan","tag-japanese-prime-minister","tag-keir-starmer","tag-news","tag-sanae-takaichi","tag-technological-partnership","tag-toby-shepheard","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638398","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=638398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/638399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=638398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=638398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=638398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}