US, Japan Announce Historic Revision of Defense Cooperation Guidelines

The United States and Japan plan to expand their military cooperation under new guidelines that, for the first time in the history of the alliance, will allow Tokyo to project its power on a global scale. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter met Monday with their Japanese counterparts in New York before announcing the update to the defense cooperation agreement that had last been updated in 1997. Kerry called said the new guidelines represent “an...

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