Philippines, Japan to sign landmark defense deal today

The Philippines and Japan are set to consent to a protection arrangement on Monday that will allow their tactical powers to visit each other’s nations, the Philippine president’s interchanges office reported on Sunday.

President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. will be available for the marking of the Philippines-Japan Corresponding Access Understanding, following a kindness visit by Japanese Unfamiliar Pastor Yoko Kamikawa and Protection Clergyman Minoru Kihara, as per his office.

Kamikawa and Kihara are in Manila to meet with their Philippine partners to talk about fortifying safeguard collaboration between the two nations, both significant U.S. partners in Asia.

The Philippines has been improving its associations with adjoining nations and others to address what it sees as China’s rising emphaticness in the South China Ocean. In the meantime, Japan has been engaged with a question with China over the East China Ocean’s uninhabited islands, known as the Senkaku in Japan and the Diaoyu in China.

Exchanges for the Philippines-Japan Equal Access Understanding officially started in November.