The US and Japan will strengthen their outer space surveillance capabilities via the division of labor. Japan plans to utilize FPS-5 radar capable of monitoring ballistic missiles in the surveillance of Northeastern Asia, with a budget of 100 million Japanese yen (NT$37 million). The outer space surveillance program is part of the two nations' effort to step up the monitoring of the status of mainland China.
Sankei Shimbun reported that the US and Japan have achieved consensus on the utilization of outer space during the talks between their diplomatic and national defense departments this year.
At a press conference following a meeting with his Japanese counterpart, Leon Edward Panetta, US Secretary of Defense, expressed that the US and Japan will intensify cooperation in the realm of outer space, starting from the effective utilization of Japan's FPS-5 radar.
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