With an eye on China, Japan and Britain have agreed to expand defense ties, including closer defense-industrial cooperation and work together on new security domains such as cyberspace and outer space.
Following ¡°two-plus-two¡± talks held in Tokyo on Tuesday, the nations¡¯ foreign and defense ministers said that they aim to boost military coordination and interoperability by conducting ¡°more frequent and complex joint exercises,¡± including during the upcoming ¡°Vigilant Isles 23¡± drills, which will see more than 150 British personnel deploy to Japan.
Set to start Nov. 15, the field training exercise between the British Army and the Ground Self-Defense Force will be the first to be enabled by a bilateral visiting forces pact that took effect on Oct. 15.
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