
United States and Japanese defense officials promised to increase cyber cooperation last weekend, officials said in a joint statement on May 29The announcement of cyber cooperation came when Defense Secretary Ash Carter and Japanese Defense Minister Gen Nakatani met on the sidelines the Shangri-La Dialogue, an annual forum on Asian security held at Singapore.The “Joint Statement of the U.S.-Japan Cyber Defense Policy Working Group” came as a follow-on to the recently updated Guidelines for U.S.-Japan Defense Cooperation from April.The guidelines…