(ANSA) – TOKYO, 18 SET – “To demonstrate in practical effects how much Japan is the key for Italy with respect to the whole Indo-Pacific quadrant”: this is the announced goal of Chamber Vice President Giorgio Mule’, who is visiting Tokyo after a stop at Expo Osaka 2025, with a day full of institutional meetings, but also in-depth discussions with universities and local media, in an attempt to bring the two allied countries closer together. Meetings with counterparts, the vice presidents of the House of Representatives and the Senate, Koichiro Genba and Tatsuro Fukuyama, respectively, were accompanied by dialogue engaged in with Noriko Horuichi, chair of the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee, and Takaishi Endo, chair of the Security Committee, and then traveled to Keio University for a face-to-face meeting with Professor Kohei Itoh, and the point with the Asahi Shimbun newspaper.
“In this direction go the ratification of agreements for working vacations for young people between 18 and 30 years old, the multinational Global Combat Air Program (GCAP) project, the strategic presence of the Navy; a series of facts and acts to make Japan the entry hub of Italy and Europe of what is happening,” Mulè, host of the Italian Ambassador to Tokyo, Gianluigi Benedetti, tells ANSA.
“Concrete acts that are manifesting themselves not only with the strategic partnership but also with consequent actions. It’s not a will; it’s what needs to be done because from the strategic point of view it gives the guarantee of security, conditions from which everything of a commercial, technological, industrial nature descends,” he added.
“I wish Japan was in NATO,” Mulé says again, “because it would be a guarantee for Europe with respect to what happens around here. If I entrust you with the ability to build the door of my house, in terms of security, and I trust you, you get in everywhere and this becomes,” the Azure exponent further explains, “a flywheel for everyone. It is because today, in 2025, everything comes from the famous ‘awareness,’ the knowledge that a threat is not a threat when it occurs-and here they know it well because they are preparing for what we all hope will not happen, with respect to Taiwan and China. If you now give them the umbrella and build the house together with them, that opens any door for you.”
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“In this direction go the ratification of agreements for working vacations for young people between 18 and 30 years old, the multinational Global Combat Air Program (GCAP) project, the strategic presence of the Navy; a series of facts and acts to make Japan the entry hub of Italy and Europe of what is happening,” Mulè, host of the Italian Ambassador to Tokyo, Gianluigi Benedetti, tells ANSA.
“Concrete acts that are manifesting themselves not only with the strategic partnership but also with consequent actions. It’s not a will; it’s what needs to be done because from the strategic point of view it gives the guarantee of security, conditions from which everything of a commercial, technological, industrial nature descends,” he added.
“I wish Japan was in NATO,” Mulé says again, “because it would be a guarantee for Europe with respect to what happens around here. If I entrust you with the ability to build the door of my house, in terms of security, and I trust you, you get in everywhere and this becomes,” the Azure exponent further explains, “a flywheel for everyone. It is because today, in 2025, everything comes from the famous ‘awareness,’ the knowledge that a threat is not a threat when it occurs-and here they know it well because they are preparing for what we all hope will not happen, with respect to Taiwan and China. If you now give them the umbrella and build the house together with them, that opens any door for you.”
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