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US Defense Secretary Pledges Support for Japan

04/02/2017 GMT

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James Mattis, the new US defense secretary, visits Japan

James Mattis, the new US defense secretary visits Japan and pledges that America will continue the alliance between the two countries.

New US defense secretary James Mattis says that America will side with Japan in any disputes with China over the contested islands in the South China Sea. Also in the programme: Is the two state solution between Israelis and Palestinians dead?  

(Image: US Secretary of Defense James Mattis shakes hands with Japanese Defence Minister Tomomi Inada in Tokyo on 4th February 2017. Credit: Franck Robichon/AFP/Getty Images)

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