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Japan-NATO Conference on Strategic Communications
February 3, 2025


On February 3, the Japan-NATO Conference on Strategic Communications took place in Tokyo.
- Japan announced the hosting of this conference within FY2024 on the occasion of the NATO Summit last July. Mr. KITAGAWA Katsuro, Ambassador, Assistant Minister, Director-General of the European Affairs Bureau, and other officials from concerned ministries and agencies attended the conference from the Government of Japan. Officials from NATO (NATO allies, Ms. Marie-Doha Besancenot, NATO’s Assistant Secretary General for Public Diplomacy, and others), Indo-Pacific partners (IP4: Japan, Australia, New Zealand, the Republic of Korea) and the EU attended the conference as well.
- This conference was held based on the facts that, a cooperation document between Japan and NATO (Individually Tailored Partnership Programme (ITPP)) identified strategic communications as one of the priority areas of cooperation, and that one of the flagship projects between IP4 and NATO, announced at the NATO Summit last July, included “countering disinformation.” Participants mainly exchanged views on the information environment in the Indo-Pacific region and the way forward for future cooperation in the conference.
- Japan will further enhance the Japan-NATO cooperation including on strategic communications and maintain close coordination with NATO, IP4 and other partners in taking the lead in the IP4-NATO cooperation, based on the recognition that the security of Euro-Atlantic and Indo-Pacific is inseparable.