Japan To Spend $1.9B This Year To Host US Troops
Some 55,000 American troops are deployed in Japan under bilateral security alliance. Japan said Wednesday it would spend $1.9 billion to host US troops this fiscal year beginning April.
The announcement was made by Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi after Japan secured a cost-sharing deal for the roughly 55,000 US troops stationed in the country, Kyodo News reported.
The deal extended by one year a five-year cost-sharing agreement under a bilateral security alliance between the two sides that would have ended next March the end of Japan s fiscal year. We want to maintain close cooperation with the United States to strengthen our alliance s deterrence and ability to respond to challenges, Motegi told a news conference in the capital Tokyo.