Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida and British Foreign Secretary William Hague agreed Wednesday to deepen bilateral security cooperation, especially in the fields of maritime, computers and outer space as well as counterterrorism.
During the second Japan-U.K. strategic dialogue in Tokyo, the ministers also agreed to start working-level discussions on sharing information about the Middle East, North Africa and Southeast Asia. The first dialogue was held last October.
Kishida explained to Hague the plan by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe administration to create a Japanese version of the U.S National Security Council and its plan to review security strategies, including reinterpretation of the pacifist Constitution to allow the Self-Defense Forces to aid allies that are attacked.