We also need to work with regional partners to build a multi-layered network that is open, comprehensive and building on international rules utilizing such frameworks as trilateral dialogues among Japan-U.S.-ROK and Japan-U.S.-Australia, East Asia Summit and APEC.
We were able to confirm from broader perspectives the present-day significance of the Japan-U.S. alliance and where the Japan-U.S. relations should be headed in the longer term.
They worked with the National Foreign Trade Council, the U.S.-Japan Business Council, and the Japan-U.S. Business Council, and got support from members of the U.S. Congress.
In 1996 with representatives of leading U.S. semiconductor firms I was a committee member reviewing U.S.-Japan semiconductor trade agreements as part of an extensive evaluation of all U.S.-Japan trade agreements from 1980 to 1996 launched by the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan (ACCJ).
At 77, he still has a significant role to play in Sino-Taiwan-Japan-U.S. relations.
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After all, under the Japan-U.S. Defense Cooperation agreement, Japan's Self-Defense Forces would be allowed to engage for the first time in detailed planning with U.S. forces to meet a range of contingencies, including non-combat support, in the event of conflict in the East Asian region.
So, very likely, is a Japanese reassessment of the post-WWII Japan-U.S. security relationship.
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Since becoming PM, Hashimoto has pulled off many more coups, including the successful re-negotiation of the U.S.-Japan defense treaty.
Representing traditional LDP thinking, Morimoto is known as a strong backer of the U.S.-Japan defense alliance and supports keeping U.S. Marines in Okinawa at a relocated Futenma airbase.
He is visiting Japan to underscore that the U.S.-Japan alliance is strong.
Proponents of the agreement believe that failure to implement the FS-X transaction could seriously impair U.S.-Japan defense relations and adversely affect Japan's willingness to make major purchases from the United States in the future.
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As a point of departure for my testimony, I would like to ask that a paper recently prepared by the Center for Security Policy concerning the pro's and con's of the original FS-X arrangement entitled "The U.S.-Japan FS-X Agreement: Assessing the Stakes" be inserted in the record in its entirety at this point.
Which is why in November then-Defense Minister Satoshi Morimoto proposed updating the U.S.-Japan defense guidelines to include the Senkakus.
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While the San Francisco Treaty ended six years and eight months of official allied occupation and absolute authority of the GHQ, the U.S.-Japan Security Treaty signed on the same day kept Okinawa under U.S. extraterritorial jurisdiction and control, denying Japanese sovereignty for another 20 years.
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He places the long-serving post-war prime minister Yoshida Shigeru, who signed the U.S.-Japan peace treaty and the first post-occupation status of forces agreement, in the former camp, along with Nakasone Yasuhiro, Koizumi Junichiro, and Noda Yoshihiko.
And I am also happy to have such a meeting in a year which is a milestone of 50 years -- 50th anniversary of the Japan-U.S. alliance.
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What Abe and his group have not thought enough about it is essential contradiction and dysfunction of a Japan that wants to turn the page and continuation of the U.S.-Japan security alliance in which Japan remains a less than sovereign and independent protectorate of the United States.
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For Japan this means an unwinding of the structures and alignments of the current U.S.-Japan security relationship.
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But in the past 15 years, despite (or perhaps because of) the emperor and the government's best efforts, bass fishing has become the new Elvis in Japan, especially among the country's youth, where the sport has tapped into all of the outlaw, counter-culture character (and growth) that skateboarding has in the U.S. Japan-based tackle manufacturers, like Yozuri, Shimano and Daiwa , now supply bass anglers all over the world.
The U.S.-Japan Alliance is the cornerstone of peace, security, and stability in the Asia-Pacific region.
The U.S.-Japan partnership continues to be defined by our enduring commitment to the maintenance of peace.
The actual text of the new U.S.-Japan treaty won't be released until it's signed.
Most obviously, the very structure of the U.S.-Japan alliance is not one between two equal first tier powers.
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Even so, it came against a backdrop of higher level joint U.S.-Japan efforts to prevent a nuclear meltdown.
In a previous post I said that the U.S.-Japan security alliance is on the wrong side of history.
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"We would say that the U.S.-Japan alliance has been maintained at the sacrifice of the Okinawan people, " he says.
In the month ahead we can expect the history of U.S.-Japan security relations since WWII to inform campaign speeches.
The U.S.-Japan security alliance cannot and will not be part of this order.
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