Japan’s defense minister said the US hadn’t made a specific demand to send ships to the Middle East, following media reports that Tokyo has started to explore that possibility ahead of Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s summit with US President Donald Trump this week.

Japan’s defense minister said the nation currently has no plans to send warships to the Strait of Hormuz after US President Donald Trump put pressure on Tokyo to do so ahead of a summit meeting with Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi later this week.

Japan and the United States are expected to agree on a $100 million joint project in shipbuilding, a sector both countries are keen o

Any decision to dispatch Japanese military vessels to the Middle East to escort ships would face “high hurdles,” a senior official said, after President Donald Trump expressed hopes that Tokyo would join the US to keep the Strait of Hormuz “open and safe.

The Japanese cabinet of Takahashi, which secured a landslide victory in the early general election, has prioritized the reconstruction of the shipbuilding industry as a key task to build a "strong Japan," drawing global attention from the shipbuilding sector.

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