Leaders from Japan and the EU announced a new digital partnership April 12, following a summit in which they discussed how to jointly contend with rising authoritarianism amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, nuclear sabre rattling from North Korea, and increased aggression from China’s communist regime.
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida met with European Council President Charles Michel and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen at the 28th EU-Japan summit in Tokyo, where they reaffirmed their commitment to upholding democratic norms, the rules-based international order, and a free and open Indo-Pacific.
“Today we discussed the deepening strategic and economic partnership between the European Union and Japan,” Michel said. “We addressed our bilateral relations and important regional and global challenges, and how best to coordinate our responses.”
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