Japan and the U.S. settled on an unusual one-year agreement on Tokyo’s share of costs for hosting American troops Wednesday, in a move that will buy time for both sides amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
The special agreement, reached after negotiations between the administrations of Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga and President Joe Biden, comes after years of reported backroom dealings between their predecessors that left the alliance strained over threats to withdraw U.S. troops if certain cost benchmarks were not met.
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