Staff writers
A Lower House special committee's approval Monday of bills covering the updated Japan-U.S. defense cooperation guidelines will certainly set the future course of bilateral security cooperations, forging a stronger military alliance between the two nations and greatly changing the role of the Self-Defense Forces outside Japan.
Despite their significance, however, the bills have failed to get the public attention they deserve.
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