US-Japan Alliance Revitalized
The new Guidelines for the US-Japan Defense Cooperation represent the most sweeping changes in the US-Japan alliance in the 55 years since the mutual security treaty was signed in 1960. Indeed, it is possible now to write about the alliance without putting the word in quotation marks.
The new guidelines, the first revision since 1997, are designed to spe…
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