Japan on Sunday said that the threshold for Tokyo to send its warships to help protect the Strait of Hormuz is “extremely high,” Anadolu reports. “I regard the threshold as extremely high” for sending navy ships to the region under existing Japanese laws, Takayuki Kobayashi, policy chief of Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party, said, according to the public broadcaster NHK. “Legally speaking, we do not rule out the possibility, but given the current situation in which this conflict is ongoing, I believe this is something that must be considered with great caution,” Kobayashi added He made the remarks hours after US President Donald Trump said that countries affected by Iran’s attempted closure of the Strait of Hormuz will send warships in conjunction […]
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