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United States Japan to broaden their military alliance by adding new missile defense radar 0310132.
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| Thursday, October 3, 2013 09:35 AM | |||
| United States and Japan to broaden their military alliance by adding new missile defense radar. | |||
Against
the backdrop of pressing regional tensions, the United States and Japan
agreed Thursday to broaden their military alliance, including by adding
a new missile defense radar system in Japan and cooperating to combat
cyberthreats. |
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 United States Secretary of State John Kerry |
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The agreement, signed during a joint visit here by United States Secretary of State John Kerry and Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel in a meeting with their Japanese counterparts, signals the United States’ increased military, economic and diplomatic focus on Asia, and it is likely to alarm China, which has had increasingly testy relations with Tokyo. The deal comes at a time when the Japanese government is seeking to greatly enhance its own military capabilities and to revise its pacifist Constitution, drafted after World War II, paving the way for it to become a more equal partner with the United States in times of conflict. For the first time,
the two countries will work on specific cyberdefense projects to increase
cybersecurity in both countries. Further, the United States Marine Corps
will replace aging helicopters here with two squadrons of MV-22 aircraft,
and will deploy surveillance drones to be based in Japan for the first
time. And the P-8, a cutting-edge highly advanced manned reconnaissance
airplane, will be deployed for the first time to Japan to help the United
States and its allies monitor maritime activities in the Pacific, where
Japan and China both claim the same disputed islands. |
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