Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said Monday he is considering canceling his attendance at a NATO summit.

Axar.az informs accrding to Japanese media, Ishiba had been scheduled to make a three-day trip starting Tuesday to attend the meeting in The Hague, Netherlands, before the United States struck three nuclear sites in Iran early Sunday.

Japan is not a NATO member but is one of the trans-Atlantic alliance's Indo-Pacific partners, along with Australia, New Zealand and South Korea.

Japan has participated in the NATO gathering for three straight years since June 2022, and Ishiba's predecessor, Fumio Kishida, expressed Tokyo's strong support for Ukraine in its war against Russia's aggression.

Ishiba had also been planning to hold bilateral talks with leaders of NATO members and its partners while in The Hague.

Japan and NATO have been strengthening cooperation in recent years, sharing the view that security in the Euro-Atlantic and Indo-Pacific regions is "inseparable" amid increasingly aggressive Chinese military activity in the East and South China seas.