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of which were unveiled in April 2023. This is a departure from Japan’s purely ODA approach and is meant to strengthen the military capabilities of friendly countries. The OSA includes provision of equipment and supplies to beef up monitoring and surveillance in maritime areas and airspace, peacekeeping operations, and humanitarian activities.
Two Japanese fighter jets landed in the former Clark Air Base in December 2022 as part of the defense cooperation between the Japan Air Self-Defense Force and the Philippine Air Force. The visit of the Japanese fighter jets was theThe Philippine Army joined the Japan-US command post exercise, Yama Sakura, as observers, another first in military annals.
Security relations between the two countries have since come a long way. As Tomotaka Shoji of the National Institute for Defense Studies, a think tank of Japan’s defense ministry, told me: “The Philippines is the most important security partner of Japan . We share common concerns about maritime security in the face of China’s growing assertiveness in the South China Sea and East China Sea.”
We will be seeing more joint military activities with Japan as well as trilateral security cooperation among Japan, the US and the Philippines. But that’s a topic for another day.
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