The United States and Japan are engaged in the most far-reaching deliberations about their alliance since they revised their mutual security treaty in 1960 — discussions that envision a greatly enhanced role for Japan in the common defense. Honolulu Advertiser via RealClearPolitics
More and more proof that Japan is taking more and more responsibility for its own security.
Among our military leaders, an advocate of closer U.S.-Japan security coordination is Lt. Gen. Wallace Gregson, former commander of U.S. Marines in Japan and now commander of all Marine forces in the Pacific. He has spent more time posted in Japan than many top U.S. officers. Gregson noted that "I have advocated in the past greater combined training for our forces, combined operations where appropriate and even combined basing." At his headquarters in Hawai'i, he said, "I think we're on the first step of a period of unprecedented cooperation and collaboration between our two nations."
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