Japan weighs defense review to boost U.S. alliance

2009/08/04 06:59:09 @Reuters: International News

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan should ease restraints on the military, partly to boost its alliance with Washington, a government panel proposed on Tuesday, but the opposition Democrats said they would re-think such plans if they took power. div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=0-1qqf0khDc:JZQWGsng1Cc:yIl2AUoC8zA" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=0-1qqf0khDc:JZQWGsng1Cc:F7zBnMyn0Lo" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=0-1qqf0khDc:JZQWGsng1Cc:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=0-1qqf0khDc:JZQWGsng1Cc:V_sGLiPBpWU" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=0-1qqf0khDc:JZQWGsng1Cc:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /img /a /div img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/worldNews/~4/0-1qqf0khDc" height="1" width="1"/
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