Japan, U.S. agree to revise bilateral defense cooperation guidelines

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Japan and the United States on Thursday agreed to revise their bilateral defense cooperation guidelines by the end of 2014 in a move to cope with changing security environment, according to the two countries' defense and foreign chiefs.

The decision, which was the first time in 17 years, was made during the Japan-U.S. "two-plus-two" summit held here Thursday between Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida and Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera and their U.S. counterparts John Kerry and Chuck Hagel.

The two countries also agreed to move part of U.S. military personnel from Japan's Okinawa to Guam from the first half of the 2020s so as to ease burden of hosting bulk of U.S. bases in Japan in the Japanese southernmost prefecture, the ministers told reporters after their meeting.

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