The meeting was co-chaired by Will Middleton, Cyber Director at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) and Naoki Kumagai, Ambassador in charge of Cyber Policy and Deputy Director-General of the Foreign Policy Bureau at Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA).
Representatives attended from the UK’s FCDO, Cabinet Office (CO), Department for Business and Trade (DBT), Department for Science, Information and Technology (DSIT), Home Office (HO) and National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), and from Japan’s MOFA, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC), Ministry of Defense (MOD), National center of Incident readiness and Strategy for Cybersecurity (NISC), National Police Agency (NPA), and Japan Computer Emergency Response Team Coordination Center (JPCERT/CC).
At this dialogue, the 2 sides exchanged views on a wide range of issues, such as on each country’s cybersecurity strategy and policy, cooperation in the international fora including the UN, and cybersecurity capacity building.
Both chairs agreed to strengthen cooperation under the May 2023 UK-Japan Cyber Partnership as a linchpin of the wider global strategic partnership. Both sides affirmed that the 2 countries will continue to meet under the Cyber Dialogue.
