TOKYO — Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba confirmed Japan’s position urging both Israel and Iran to exercise “maximum restraint,” despite the Group of Seven statement earlier this week affirming Israel’s “right to defend itself.”
“What the foreign minister said is the position of the Japanese government. The G7 is the G7,” Ishiba said at a meeting between leaders of the ruling and opposition parties on Thursday, according to Japanese Communist Party Chair Tomoko Tamura, one of the attendees.
