A bipartisan group of influential U.S. policy experts on Thursday unveiled a set of proposals to build a "more integrated" partnership between their country and Japan amid a challenging security environment, with one key pillar being a transformation of the decades-old alliance's command-and-control architecture.A report released by the group, co-chaired by former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage and Joseph Nye, a former assistant secretary of defense for international security affairs, highlighted that both Japan's role in the international community and its alliance with the Uni…READ FULL ARTICLE
