US to announce military command revamp in Japan, official says

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US to announce military command revamp in Japan, official says

A dealer works behind U.S., left, and ********* national flags at a foreign exchange brokerage in Tokyo, Japan.

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The ******* States will unveil a major revamp of its military command structure in Japan and other measures to deepen defense ties with its ****** ally at high-level security talks in Tokyo on Sunday, a U.S. official said.

The overhaul comes as Tokyo looks to establish a new ****** headquarters to oversee its armed forces by March to coordinate better with Washington on growing regional threats they see emanating from China and North Korea.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin will hold talks with their ********* Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa and Defense Minister Minoru Kihara later on Sunday. Austin and Kihara also met their South Korean counterpart, Shin Won-sik earlier in the day.

“Secretary Austin plans to announce that the ******* States intends to reconstitute U.S. Forces Japan as a ****** Force Headquarters, reporting to the commander of U.S. INDOPACOM,” the U.S. official told a briefing ahead of the talks.

The command will be headed by a three-star general, the official said, not the four-star rank that 

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For the first time, 

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 between the U.S. and Japan will also cover “extended deterrence”, a term used to describe the U.S. commitment to use its nuclear forces to deter attacks on allies.

Japan provides a base for the U.S. to project its military power in Asia, hosting 54,000 ********* troops, hundreds of U.S. aircraft and Washington’s only forward-deployed aircraft carrier strike group.

Prompted by China’s growing military might, Japan is stepping back from decades of postwar pacifism. In 2022 it unveiled a plan to double defense spending to 2% of ****** domestic product.

Washington also wants to 

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 to help ease pressure on U.S. defense companies stretched by demand generated by conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East.

Last month, Tokyo and Washington opened talks on deeper defense industry collaboration under the U.S.-Japan Forum on Defense Industrial Cooperation, Acquisition and Sustainment established in April by Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and President Joe Biden.

After Tokyo, Blinken and Austin will hold security talks with another ally, the Philippines, as the Biden administration seeks to counter an increasingly bold China.

Blinken 

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 his ******** counterpart Wang Yi in Laos on Saturday and repeated that Washington and its partners want to maintain a “free and open Indo-Pacific,” according to a U.S. readout of the meeting.

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