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Japan, U.S. Expand Missile Defense Partnership
Japan and the United States moved today to boost their cooperative missile defense efforts, the Associated Press reported (see GSN, April 28). An agreement signed today calls for the joint production of missile interceptors, the Japanese Foreign Ministry said. A missile-detecting radar was deployed on a northern Japanese base just hours before U.S. and Japanese officials signed the deal. The X-band radar was moved to the Japanese Air Self-Defense Force base in Tsugaru from a U.S. air base in Misawa, the Defense Agency said. The radar should start monitoring for ballistic missiles sometime this summer, an official said. The radar would be used only to monitor missiles and is equipped with an interceptor, she said. The agreement would allow Japan to share missile defense technology with the United States — an area of contention for Japan considering its pacifist views and prohibition of arms exports. Foreign Ministry official Saori Nagahara said the United States and Japan do not yet have a scheduled for production of interceptor missiles and expect the development to take nine years (Joseph Coleman, Associated Press/New York Daily News, June 23).
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