Tokyo and Washington Writing New Guidelines for Military Partnerships

Defense News: American and Japanese officials are in talks to complete a “vision statement” for how the two allies might work together in the security arena of their 1997 Defense Cooperation document, according to a senior Pentagon official.

An interim planning document released today in Tokyo by American and Japanese officials lays out a broad agenda for possible cooperation that includes disaster response, ISR, cyber, intelligence sharing, air and missile defense programs and defense equipment and technology cooperation.

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