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US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegsetth On Sunday, he announced a plan to upgrade the US military command in Japan, a country he described as necessary in the fight against Chinese aggression.
“We share an ethos of a warrior who defines our forces,” said Hegsetth Japanese Minister of Defense Gene of Nakatani in Tokyo, adding that Japan “is our necessary partner” in the “distraction of communist Chinese military aggression”, including the entire Taiwanese Strait.
Hegsetth said that Japan was “the cornerstone of peace and security in Indo-Pacific” and that Trump’s administration would continue to work closely with the Asian country.
Peta Hegsetth, US Minister of Defense, and Gen Nakatani, Japanese Defense Minister, shake hands as they posed for photographs before their meeting at the Tokyo Ministry of Defense in Japan on Sunday, March 30, 2025. (Reuters)
Last year, then President Joe Biden announced the great restructuring of the US military command in Japan to deepen coordination with the country’s forces, because the two Allied countries called China their “biggest strategic challenge”.
The change will accommodate a combined operative commander in Japan, who would be a colleague to the command of the Command of Common Operations, which was established last week by the Japanese self -defense forces.
Hegsets great praise for Japan is contrary to his criticism of European allies in February, telling them that they should not assume that the presence of the USA region will last forever.
Feta Hegsetth, US Minister of Defense and General Nakatana, Japanese Defense Minister, meet at the Ministry of Defense in Tokyo in Japan on Sunday, March 30, 2025. (Reuters)
US President Donald Trump He complained that a bilateral defense contract in which the US government advocated to defend Japan is not reciprocal. In his first term, Trump said Japan should bear more money to host American troops.
Japan hosted 50,000 US military staff, fighter jets and US only attacking aircraft strikes for the transport of aircraft along East Asia Archives, which has climbed in Chinese military power.
This comes because Japan doubles military consumption, including money to buy a longer range rocket. However, the operational scope of his forces is limited by the Constitution-edited United States, after the defeat in the Second World War-which renounces the right to the beginning of the war.
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Peta Hegsetth, US Minister of Defense, and Gen Nakatana, Japanese Defense Minister, attended a joint press conference at the Ministry of Defense in Tokyo in Japan on Sunday, March 30, 2025. (Reuters)
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Hegsetth and Nakatana agreed that they would accelerate the plan for joint production of Amraam outside air-to-air rockets and consider working together to work on the production of SM-6 defense rockets, to support the lack of ammunition, Nakatana said.
Pentagon chief said he asked Nakatani for a greater approach Japanese strategic southwestern islandsalong the edge of the challenged Eastern Chinese Sea near Taiwan.
In his first official visit to Asia, Hegsetth traveled to Japan from the Philippines.
On Saturday, he attended a memorial service at Iwo Jimi, a place of struggle between us and Japanese forces 80 years ago.
Reuters contributed to this report.
