Japan and the UK
Featured
World news story
Celebrating the First Anniversary of UK's Accession to CPTPP
Service
FCDO travel advice: Japan
Our mission
We are transforming our partnership with Japan to deliver for the UK through growth, security and connection. Our enhanced global strategic partnership – set out in the 2023 Hiroshima Accord – provides the framework for our co-operation. We are driving UK economic growth through a strategic economic partnership with Japan supporting our trade and investment, secure and resilient growth, and a free and open international trading system. We are each other’s closest security partners in Asia and Europe, respectively, and we are deepening our defence and security cooperation including through our ground-breaking Global Combat Air Programme. We are investing in wider connections, building the next generation of UK-Japan leaders through the MUSUBI initiative, an innovative public-private partnership supporting new programmes to connect the next generation, including scholarships, sport, cultural and business exchanges. We provide support to British nationals who visit and live in Japan through modern and efficient consular services.