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Secretary of Defense of the United States Pete Hegseth He announced on Sunday a plan to improve the United States military command in Japan, a country that described as indispensable to combat Chinese aggression.
“We share a warrior spirit that defines our forces,” Hegseth told the Japanese Minister of Defense Gen Nakatani in Tokyo, and added that Japan is “our indispensable partner” by “deterring Chinese communist military aggression”, even throughout the Taiwan Strait.
Hegesh said that Japan is a “cornerstone of peace and security in the Indo-Pacific” and that the Trump administration would continue to work closely with the Asian country.
Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Defense of the United States, and the Nakatani Gen, Japan’s Minister of Defense, set their hands while posing for photographs before their meeting at the Ministry of Defense in Tokyo, Japan, on Sunday, March 30, 2025. (Reuters)
Last year, the administration of then President Joe Biden announced an important restructuring of the United States military command in Japan to deepen coordination with the country’s forces, since the two allied countries called China their “greater strategic challenge.”
The change will place an operational commander combined in Japan, which would be a counterpart of the head of a joint operations command established last week by Japan’s self -defense forces.
The great praise of Hegesh for Japan contrasts with their criticism of European allies in February, telling them that they should not assume that the presence of the United States in the region would last forever.
Pete Hegesh, Secretary of Defense of the United States, and General Nakatani, Minister of Defense of Japan, meet in the Ministry of Defense in Tokyo, Japan, on Sunday, March 30, 2025. (Reuters)
President of the United States Donald Trump He has complained that the Bilateral Defense Treaty in which the United States government promises to defend Japan is not reciprocal. In his first term, Trump said Japan should disburse more money to house US troops.
Japan receives 50,000 US military personnel, combat aircraft squads and the only US plane aircraft group along an aircraft attack group along an archipelago of 1,900 miles in East Asia that doubles Chinese military power.
This occurs when Japan doubles military spending, including money to buy more reach missiles. But the operational scope of its forces is limited by its constitution, adopted, adopted after its defeat in World War II, which renounces the right to begin war.
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Pete Hegesh, Secretary of Defense of the United States, and the Nakatani Gen, Japan Defense Minister, attend a joint press conference at the Ministry of Defense in Tokyo, Japan, on Sunday, March 30, 2025. (Reuters)
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Hegseth and Nakatani agreed to accelerate a plan to jointly produce Amraam Air-Aire missiles of visual range and consider working together in the production of SM-6 surface defense missiles to support a shortage of ammunition, Nakatani said.
The head of the Pentagon said that he asked Nakatani for greater access to The strategic islands of southwest JapanAlong the edge of the playing sea of East China near Taiwan.
On his first official visit to Asia, Hegseth traveled to Japan from the Philippines.
On Saturday, he attended a commemorative service in Iwo Jima, the fighting site between US and Japanese forces 80 years ago.
Reuters contributed to this report.
