MANILA, Philippines --- Japan is joining a large-scale joint exercise between the Philippine and US armies for the first time, a top military official said, in the latest of the emerging trilateral defense partnership of the three nations. A handful of observers from the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force (JGSDF) will participate in Salaknib (shield in the Ilocano dialect) --- an annual exercise led by the Philippine Army to strengthen the readiness and interoperability with its counterparts from the United States --- which will kick off next week. "We invited Japan to observe Salaknib as an extension of the observer program being done in Balikatan for many years already," Army ch...
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