Japan and Britain signed a bilateral defense cooperation agreement Wednesday aimed at facilitating joint military drills amid the increasingly severe security situation in the Indo-Pacific region due partly to China's growing military clout.Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and his British counterpart Rishi Sunak held talks in London on the Reciprocal Access Agreement, which sets rules on the transportation of weapons during joint exercises or disaster relief operations in each other's countries.Kishida's visit to the British capital was the third stop on his weeklong tour of Group of S…READ FULL ARTICLE