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during contingencies.” The Guidelines stipulated the basic principles in
terms of emergencies in Japan, but they left emergencies in the Far East
other than Japan for future consideration.
GUIDELINES FOR U.S.–JAPAN DEFENSE COOPERATION,
1997. These are new guidelines of 1997 that revised Guidelines for
U.S.–Japan Defense Cooperation, 1978. The United States and
Japan agreed with the new guidelines on 23 September 1997. The
guidelines stipulate U.S.–Japan cooperation in emergencies in the areas
surrounding Japan. Its defense areas extended to cover not only
Japanese territories but also the Asia–Pacific region, and its primary
aim is to contribute to bringing peace and stability in the region. The
new guidelines are significant because even in emergencies outside
the Japanese territories, Japan, for the first time in its history, may cooperate
with the United States militarily beyond providing the United
States with military bases in Japan and other facilities. In order to secure
effectiveness of the new guidelines, the so-called three new
guidelines-related laws were enacted on 24 May 1999: the Lawona
Situation in the Areas Surrounding Japan, the amendment of the
Self-Defense Forces Law, and the revised Acquisition and Cross-
Servicing Agreement.
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HALL, FRANCIS • 97
HALL, FRANCIS (1822–1902). An American businessman, reporter
for the New York Tribune, and friend of missionaries Samuel
R. Brown and Guido Verbeck, Francis Hall lived in the treaty port
of Yokohama from 1859 to 1866. He helped found Walsh, Hall &
Company while living in Japan. He returned to his native Elmira,
New York, where he continued his business success and became a
prominent philanthropist. The journal of his years in Japan, published
as Japan Through American Eyes: The Journal of Francis
Hall, 1859–1866 (edited by Fred Notehelfer), is a wealth of information
about life during the turbulent years of Japan’s contact with
the West just before the Meiji Restoration. See also HECO,
JOSEPH.