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Emperor Naruhito state visit: Banquet at London Guildhall; Part 2 of 3 ENGLAND: London: City of London: London Guildhall: INT Michael Mainelli (Lord Mayor of the City of London) speech SOT - Partners in the G7 and CPTPP, Japan and the UK are each other’s most important allies in Asia and Europe respectively / Japan was the first country the UK signed a Free Trade Agreement with when we left the European Union / ‘The Hiroshima Accord’ - will only deepen that relationship in areas like defence and renewable energy Our financial centres, Tokyo and the Square Mile, are flourishing thanks to the Memorandum of Understanding signed by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government and City Corporation in 2017 - the impact of which was evident during my visit to Japan last month, where I had the pleasure of hosting a press conference and bilateral meeting with Tokyo’s Governor Koike and discussed opportunities for further collaboration in asset management, fintech and green finance Speaking here at Guildhall in 1971, Emperor Showa, praised the ‘quiet but effective collaboration between the scholars, scientists and technical experts of our two countries’ Fifty years on, and the problems facing the world today have evolved, but the willingness of our scholars, scientists and technical experts to work together to tackle them is unchanged / the quality of joint UK-Japan research is four and a half times the world average.