TOKYO (REUTERS) - Japan wants to make every effort to reduce tension between the United States and Iran before responding to an expected US request to send its navy to safeguard strategic waters off Iran, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Monday (July 22).. Read more at straitstimes.com.
TOKYO - Japan wants to make every effort to reduce tension between the United States and Iran before responding to an expected US request to send its navy to safeguard strategic waters off Iran, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Monday .
"We have a long tradition of friendship with Iran and I've met with its president any number of times, as well as other leaders," Abe told a news conference after his coalition's victory in a Sunday election for Parliament's upper house. As Abe spoke, Bolton was meeting Foreign Minister Yohei Kono, although the two did not speak to the media before their talks. Bolton, who heads to South Korea after Japan, earlier met top Japanese national security adviser Shotaro Yachi.
Abe has long sought to revise the constitution's pacifist Article 9 to further legitimise the military, but public opinion is divided.
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