The Japan It is a “Friend friend“, With which there is” mutual esteem and growing trust “. The president of the Republic has come to Tokyo For a visit to State of seven days and immediately clarifies that the main objective will be to have a “dialogue»Open and productive as is convenient between allies. Not easy subject these days.
Sergio Mattarellameeting a delegation of compatriots who live in Japan (about seven thousand), emphasizes the dialogue and the respect As a basis for any healthy relationship, letting the setting of this long journey in the Country of the Rising Sun.
If tomorrow the most formal part of the visit will be celebrated, through the meeting with theNaruhito emperor (succeeded the father in what is the hereditary monarchy older in the world), already from Wednesday we will enter the heart of politics international with the interview with the premier Shigeru Ishiba.
Inevitably we will talk about the new America of Trumpand therefore of the crisis of the transatlantic relationshipsof the threat of duties and the relaunch of economic relations.
The approach of the new American administration at the Russia Of Vladimir Putin It will be analyzed in the political interviews of these days. Japan And Italyso far geographically, there are two, however Incredibly close countries as an economic structure. Therefore equally worried about the measures customs announced by Donald Trump. They are both two important Industrial countriesthe third and eighth in the world for GDP uninominal, and have excellent commercial relations. For both there is more than ever need to collaborate and enlarge the volume of one’s own exports.
The visit of Row it was expected in Japan: to remember the mission of a president of the Republic You have to look to September 2009 when Giorgio Napolitano He met theEmperor Akihito. Row Instead it will be received on March 4 from the eldest son, theNaruhito emperor succeeded the father in what is the hereditary monarchy oldest in the world.
THE bilateral relationships Between Rome And Tokyo They have intensified over the past two years but there is the will to bring them to an even higher level. For example, in the field militarywe will also talk about the collaboration for the realization of a Sixth generation hunting for which a common project Between Great Britain, Japan and Italy.
A frank analysis on how to react to the policy of American duties which could invest equally both Italy That Japan It will certainly be useful. Trump has threatened tariff barriers to 25% on steel, aluminum And car. Of course the tones that Trump USA against the Japan they are more “soft” than those poured on theEuropean Union. The Japan has more freedom of maneuver than a complex machine like that ofUnion and is facing the problem with a close negotiation bilateral in which the strong support weighs political And military Of Tokyo In a strategic area for USA like that ofIndo-Pacific. After Tokyo the president, accompanied by his daughter Laura and by the deputy minister of the Foreign Edmondo Cirielliwill move to Kyoto and Hiroshima.