Japan to pay 75 bil. yen more under new 5-yr deal to host U.S. troops

Japan's government said Tuesday it will increase its financial support for U.S. forces stationed in the country to 1.05 trillion yen ($9.2 billion) under a new five-year agreement starting in fiscal 2022, up 75 billion yen from the previous deal.Raising the sum from the total of 980.1 billion yen for the five years through fiscal 2020 that ended in March, Japan's latest agreement with the United States means that Tokyo's so-called host nation support will average out at 211 billion yen per year.The increase will be used to beef up cooperation under their long-standing security alliance amid…READ FULL ARTICLE