A key aspect of a major new security cooperation agreement being inked by Japan and the United States involves increased defense technology information sharing and, possibly, greater foreign military sales as the Japanese seek to shed a decades-old pacifist posture in a region where China continues to rise as a global power. "There is a provision in the guidelines for increased U.S.-Japan cooperation in the areas of co-development, co-production defense technology sharing," according to a senior defense official who briefed...
