Japan is an important member of the Quadruple Alliance in Asia, which includes the United States, India and Australia, and was created in part to counter Chinese power in the Indo-Pacific region. Chinese officials say it is clear that the US is trying to use alliances and partnerships in the region to contain China, including the Quartet and AUKUS, a new security alliance formed by the US, Britain and Australia.
On Friday, the United States and Japan announced a new agreement to cooperate in the exploration of outer space, the moon and “other celestial bodies”. US Secretary of State Anthony J.
US and Japanese officials said Wednesday that the two countries will expand military cooperation, including by improving what the governments call Japan’s anti-missile capabilities and making the US Marine Corps contingent in the country more flexible for potential combat. Japan has announced plans to purchase hundreds of US-made Tomahawk cruise missiles. Currently, Britain is the only ally of the United States with missiles.
As the Tokyo administration reinterprets the meaning of ancient constitutional constraints for the country’s defense forces, Mr. Kishida’s decision to pursue a counterattack capability goes beyond what even the most hardline members of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party were willing to do. . Say it
By repeating those commitments in Washington and receiving explicit support from Mr. Biden and other American officials, Mr. Kishida is saving on some of his new military promises. Now he has to look to the Diet, Japan’s parliament, to help implement it.
Japan’s move to bolster its forces could cause unease in South Korea, another US ally, since many Koreans have long resented Japan’s forced occupation of the Korean peninsula in the past century. This issue continues to hamper relations between the two countries.
Under the new US deployment agreement to Japan, the 12th Marine Regiment, an artillery unit serving on Okinawa, will transform into a more mobile group: the 12th Coastal Marine Regiment. US officials say the new formation will facilitate the deployment of forces to offshore islands if needed.
