The United Kingdom and Japan are expected to announce a package of investments in the areas of technology, clean energy and infrastructure with the potential to create thousands of jobs and generate more than 18 billion pounds – or more than US$24 billion – in economic gains, according to the English government this Saturday.
This Sunday, the 14th, on the eve of the G7 meeting in France, the British Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, will receive his Japanese counterpart, Sanae Takaichi, at Downing Street, at the official residence of the English government.
A round table with business leaders from both countries to discuss opportunities for economic growth, with the expectation of signing more than ten commercial and government agreements in the coming days.
According to the note distributed earlier, the meeting scheduled for tomorrow between the two leaders should also formalize a pipeline of Japanese investments for the next five years in the United Kingdom, exceeding 9 billion pounds, whose focus will be urbanization projects, corporate spaces and innovation hubs.
For the British government, this is a “vote of confidence” in the country’s economy and in the strategy of attracting foreign capital to boost long-term growth.
Starmer stated, according to the statement, that “as G7 economies and close security partners, the British and Japanese are working on some of the most innovative technologies in the world, with the aim of combining research and industry to expand growth and security in the country”.
