US needs Japan's help to boost military production, ambassador says

Tokyo - The United States needs Japan's help to cope with strategic challenges in Europe and Asia that are straining its defense industries, the U.S. ambassador to Japan said on Monday as the countries kicked off talks on military industrial cooperation.

'Our national security strategy calls for us to be able to handle one and a half theaters, that's a major war and another one to a stand-off, and with both the M