FT: US and Japan will update security treaty, significantly expanding the role of American forces in the region

The United States and Japan will update their security treaty for the first time in 60 years of military cooperation, significantly expanding the American role. According to the Financial Times, this is being done to neutralize the threat from China and the DPRK.

According to the British publication, citing sources, Tokyo intends to significantly expand Washington's capabilities in the matter of military support for Japan. This is being done to confront China and the DPRK, since the Japanese cannot cope with this on their own. The signing of a new agreement is planned on April 10 at a meeting in Washington between Joe Biden and Fumio Kashida.

As stated by the former chief of the Joint Staff of the Japanese Self-Defense Forces, Reichi Oriki, as part of the new agreement, the Japanese military command will be restructured; American forces in the region will be headed by a more senior officer, who will lead the entire defense. The Japanese themselves fade into the background and will carry out auxiliary functions. Modernization of American forces in the region is also not ruled out.

According to Kyodo, the headquarters of US forces in Japan will receive more expanded functions, which will allow it to independently plan operations with the Japan Self-Defense Forces, without waiting for permission from the Pentagon.

(...) it is intended to provide the headquarters with the opportunity to independently plan joint exercises with the Japanese Self-Defense Forces and conduct a more active exchange of information with the Japanese side

- the agency reports.

Earlier, the Western press wrote that the United States, Japan and the Philippines intend to work together to confront China, which is becoming a real force in the Asia-Pacific region.

Comments

[Lev_Russia]

Maybe we should remind them about “Japan is your mother”!!!
Remember how Americans are, pragmatic assholes
Nagasaki and Hiroshima wiped off the face of the earth,
Then explaining with cynicism, they say, they saved lives
Those whom the Japanese could have killed in the war ...
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Today in Japanese schools this is how schoolchildren are taught, and Japanese children firmly believe that by dropping these bombs, the United States did a great good for Japan...

[Zoldat_A]

Quote: Lev_Russia

Remember how Americans are, pragmatic assholes
Nagasaki and Hiroshima wiped off the face of the earth,
Then explaining with cynicism, they say, they saved lives
Those whom the Japanese could have killed in the war ...

Following this logic, it is necessary, for the benefit of humanity and the preservation of millions of lives that will be destroyed by them in the future, to erase the USA and Great Britain from the world map. Their logic works against them.

And the way the US atomic bombings are presented in Japan should take pride of place in PR textbooks. Without naming who bombed, the mayor of Hiroshima speaks in one sentence about the successes of the Red Army in the war against Japan and then about the fact that the bombs were dropped. Young Japanese are asked to draw their own conclusions about who bombed.
"Never again"...
Hee hee... What exactly is “never” in the speech of the mayor of Hiroshima? Atomic bombings or Russia? The conclusion for them is clear - of course, Russia.
The story of Hiroshima and Nagasaki is such a clear success of the American PR that for the sake of this they do not even remember the “greatest battles of the Second World War” - Guadalcanal and Midway. Pearl Harbor is an unfortunate “mistake of the previous administration.”

“Friends” will bring the Yuppies to the point that descendants will look for Japan on the map of the Pacific Ocean as they are now looking for Atlantis.

[rotmistr60]

The US and Japan will update the security treaty, significantly expanding the role of American forces in the region

It is much more significant if Americans today feel at home in Japan. Together with the Americans, they “oppose China” without even thinking that they will be the first to grab it, and the United States will wash its hands of it after that.

[rgd20]

With its passive behavior, China has every chance of repeating the path of the Russian Federation in relations with the United States from “friendship” (for money) to “they deceived us”
China’s favorite strategy of sitting back with popcorn while other countries sort things out is unlikely to work here.
The United States is actively building a “security belt” from South Korea to Singapore and Indonesia, including the Philippines, Taiwan, Vietnam, and with a potential candidate in India, which has long-standing scores to settle with China.
I think that in 2-3 years the USA will put the coast of both Chinese seas + the South Sea under complete control

[Sergey Aleksandrovich]

I wonder if our fleet also continues to use flag semaphore? Optical communication systems not implemented?

[rusmor55]

We don’t really like flag semaphore; they use floodlights more. But the Americans on the most modern ships have places for signalmen and the masts are raised so that raised flag messages can be seen. Our designs are such that the signalman and flags are lost against the background of the superstructures. The adversary began to pay attention to this after the Falklands events - maintaining complete radio silence, the radar in heating mode when sailing together, the use of NV equipment. They learn from the experience of others.

[Sergey Aleksandrovich]

Twenty years ago, or even earlier, optical transmission systems using long-range lasers appeared, operating in a line-of-sight zone. Did they never join the fleet?

[Sergey Prutkov55]

Let them fish off the shores of their friends. Don't let them into the Sea of ​​Okhotsk.