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TOKYO: Japan hosted the Japan-NATO Conference on Strategic Communications in Tokyo on Monday with the focus on “countering disinformation,” the Foreign Ministry reported.

The conference resulted from a cooperation document that identified strategic communications as one of the priority areas of cooperation for Japan and NATO.

It is one of the flagship projects between IP4 (Indo-Pacific partners Japan, Australia, New Zealand, and the Republic of Korea) and NATO that was announced at the NATO Summit in July and included “countering disinformation.”

The conference participants exchanged views on the information environment in the Indo-Pacific region and the way forward for future cooperation.

KITAGAWA Katsuro, Director-General of the European Affairs Bureau, and various other Japanese officials attended the conference, along with officials from NATO – including Marie-Doha Besancenot, NATO’s Assistant Secretary General for Public Diplomacy – the Indo-Pacific partners and the EU.

The Foreign Ministry stated: “Japan will further enhance Japan-NATO cooperation including on strategic communications and maintain close coordination with NATO, IP4 and other partners in taking the lead in the IP4-NATO cooperation, based on the recognition that the security of the Euro-Atlantic and the Indo-Pacific is inseparable.”