{"id":38636,"date":"2026-04-29T01:28:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T15:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=38636"},"modified":"2026-04-29T01:28:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T15:28:10","slug":"visit-to-australia-by-the-prime-minister-of-japan-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2026\/04\/29\/visit-to-australia-by-the-prime-minister-of-japan-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Visit to Australia by the Prime Minister of Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will welcome the Prime Minister of Japan, Her Excellency Sanae Takaichi, to Australia from Sunday 3 May to Tuesday 5 May 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This will be Prime Minister Takaichi\u2019s first official visit to Australia since taking office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This year marks 50 years since the signing of the Basic Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation between Australia and Japan \u2013 the foundation for our relationship of trust and friendship today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our Special Strategic Partnership is underpinned by deep trade and investment ties, growing security and defence cooperation and enduring cultural ties between our nations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prime Minister Albanese will meet with Prime Minister Takaichi at Parliament House in Canberra on Monday 4 May 2026 for the Australia\u2013Japan Annual Leaders\u2019 Meeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The visit will be the fourth time the leaders have met, with previous meetings last year on the margins of the East Asia Summit in Kuala Lumpur, the APEC Summit in Gyeongju and the G20 Summit in Johannesburg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Prime Minister Anthony Albanese<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI am honoured to welcome Prime Minister Takaichi to Australia for our Annual Leaders\u2019 Meeting where we will continue to work together under our Special Strategic Partnership for the benefit of our people and the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c50 years ago, our nations laid the foundation for a partnership based on trust, shared values and mutual respect by signing the Basic Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAustralia and Japan share strong strategic alignment. Our cooperation is essential to maintaining a peaceful, stable and prosperous region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOur enduring trade and investment ties underpin our relationship, creating jobs, providing opportunity and delivering economic growth to both our nations.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will welcome the Prime Minister of Japan, Her Excellency Sanae Takaichi, to Australia from Sunday 3 May to Tuesday 5 May 2026. This will be Prime Minister Takaichi\u2019s first official visit to Australia since taking office. This year marks 50 years since the signing of the Basic Treaty of Friendship and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2026\/04\/29\/visit-to-australia-by-the-prime-minister-of-japan-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Visit to Australia by the Prime Minister of Japan&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38636"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38637,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38636\/revisions\/38637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}