{"id":51388,"date":"2024-04-26T17:26:55","date_gmt":"2024-04-26T07:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abnews.com.au\/?p=51388"},"modified":"2024-04-26T17:26:55","modified_gmt":"2024-04-26T07:26:55","slug":"japan-pm-to-visit-france-brazil-paraguay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/?p=51388","title":{"rendered":"Japan PM to visit France, Brazil, Paraguay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will visit France, Brazil and Paraguay next week as his nation seeks to boost ties with Latin America.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The six-day itinerary will see Kishida meet French President Emmanuel Macron as well as Brazilian leader Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, the Japanese prime minister&#8217;s office said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This year, Brazil is chairing the G20 and Peru is chairing APEC. This is the year of Latin America, and it is the focus of the world&#8217;s attention&#8221;, government spokesman Yoshimasa Hayashi told a regular briefing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Japan would like to seize this opportunity to strengthen ties with Latin American countries,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>In his meeting with Lula, Kishida is expected to sign a deal on bilateral cooperation in areas from climate change to decarbonisation and other environmental issues, Japanese news agency Kyodo News reported.<\/p>\n<p>Kishida will also bring a delegation representing at least 40 companies, eyeing greater Japanese investments in Brazil to bolster bilateral cooperation on green technologies, the Nikkei daily reported.<\/p>\n<p>Japanese auto giant Toyota said last month that it plans to invest 11 billion reais ($2.2 billion) to beef up production of hybrid vehicles in Brazil.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to his trek to Brazil, Kishida will attend an OECD meeting in France to &#8220;lead the discussions on solutions to various economic and social issues&#8221;, his office added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will visit France, Brazil and Paraguay next week as his nation seeks to boost ties with Latin America. The six-day itinerary will see Kishida meet French President Emmanuel Macron as well as Brazilian leader Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, the Japanese prime minister&#8217;s office said. &#8220;This year, Brazil is chairing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51389,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1288],"class_list":["post-51388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","tag-japan-pm-to-visit-france-brazil-paraguay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}