US and Japan agree to adjust American troop presence on Okinawa Island as top officials of both sides meet to plan joint defence posture against assertive North Korea and China
Forces will be reorganised by 2025 in response to"an increasingly challenging security environment," Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin tells a joint news conference after talks with Japanese defence and foreign ministers.
Forces will be reorganised by 2025 into a "Marine Littoral Regiment" in response to "an increasingly challenging security environment," Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin told a joint news conference on Wednesday after talks with the Japanese defence and foreign ministers. Earlier on Wednesday, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Defense Austin hosted Japanese Foreign Minister Hayashi Yoshimasa and Japanese Defence Minister Hamada Yasukazu for the 2023 US-Japan Security Consultative Committee meeting at the State Department in Washington, DC.
He applauded Japan's decision to double defence spending by 2027, adding the United States was set to sign a new agreement with Japan later this week on cooperation in space. The Japanese delegation was in the US ahead of planned talks later this week between President Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida.
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