Strategic Command Strengthens UK-Japan Partnership
General Jim Hockenhull visited Tokyo to discuss shared threats and opportunities for collaboration.
General Jim Hockenhull , Commander Strategic Command, with General Yoshihide Yoshida, Chief of Staff for Japan Joint Staff.
Working collaboratively with like-minded nations across the globe is vital as we tackle increasingly complex and borderless threats. The partnership between Japan and the United Kingdom is an important example of this.
As part of this relationship, General Jim Hockenhull visited Tokyo to meet officials from across the Japan Self-Defense Forces. Discussions spanned the regional threats, and opportunities for even further collaboration. From larger, more frequent and complex joint exercises, to enhancing our cyber capabilities through a UK-Japan Cyber Partnership, the UK and Japan are committed to continue working ever more closely together.
General Jim Hockenhull with General Yoshihide Yoshida
In May 2023, the Prime Ministers of Japan and the UK signed the Hiroshima Accord – a landmark new global strategic partnership – which included new agreements on defence, trade, science and technology collaboration, and joint working on tackling global issues like climate change.
Strategic Command has an important role to play in this partnership, being responsible for many of the most specialist and high-tech capabilities in Defence. People are central to this, and General Hockenhull spoke with his counterparts about enhanced ways to share knowledge and expertise between the UK and Japan militaries, and shared training and education opportunities.
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