Japan is considering including a commitment to strengthening its “capabilities to deny” an adversary’s aggression in coordination with the United States in a major defence policy document to be revised later this year, government sources said on Tuesday.
The basic guidelines for the National Defence Strategy will also call for expanded Japan-US cooperation to strengthen the defence industrial base and deeper security ties with like-minded countries, the sources said.
The National Security Strategy, the highest-ranking of the three documents slated for revision by year-end, is likely to describe the world as entering a period of fundamental transformation, the sources said, citing a draft outline.