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Urgent: U.S., Japan unveil new defense guidelines

Xinhua, April 28, 2015 Adjust font size:

U.S. and Japan announced on Monday new guidelines for bilateral defense cooperation, allowing Japan's self defense forces to take on more ambitious global role that the Shinzo Abe administration has been seeking.

Under the new guidelines, revised for the first time since 1997, Japan will have the rights to exercise collective self-defense, therefore being able to defend other countries that may come under attack, said the U.S. Defense Department in a news release. It also allows for increased regional and global cooperation in the U. S.-Japanese alliance.

The announcement came on the first day of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's week-long visit to the United States. Abe is expected to meet U.S. President Barack Obama, and deliver a speech at the joint session of the U.S. Congress. Endite