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JOINT REPORT ON THE U.S.–JAPAN COMMON AGENDA • 149
originally provided by Japan. In addition, if new missile-defense
technologies jointly developed by Japan and the United States are to
be deployed in an operational national missile defense system, this
raises questions of whether such deployment might conflict with
Japan’s ban on exercising the right of collective defense. The FSX is
to be used for interception, as well as for anti-ship and anti-surface
offense.
While the United States and Japan agreed that the maximum development
expense for the FSX would be 165 billion yen, to be paid entirely
by Japan, in the end the actual development cost was about twice
that amount (327.4 billion yen). Core contractors for the FSX were
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (Japan) and Lockheed Martin (U.S.).
JOINT REPORT ON THE U.S.–JAPAN COMMON AGENDA FOR
COOPERATION IN GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE (U.S.–JAPAN
COMMON AGENDA). The Joint Report on the U.S.–Japan Common
Agenda for Cooperation in Global Perspective (U.S.–Japan Common
Agenda) was submitted to U.S. President Bill Clinton and Japanese
Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa by U.S. Under Secretary for Global
Affairs Frank E. Loy and Japanese Deputy Foreign Minister Yoshiji
Nogami in July 1993. Leaders from Japan and the United States
launched the U.S.–Japan Common Agenda as a public-private framework
for bilateral cooperation that seeks to apply the considerable resources
and technical expertise of the world’s two largest economies to
four major global issues: health and human development, challenges to
international security, the environment, and advancements in science
and technology. In each issue area, the United States and Japan have
broadened and deepened their cooperative ties, and have jointly created
more than 80 scientific projects and projects involving cooperative development
assistance.
The U.S.–Japan Common Agenda has led to a significant increase
in the number of new links between government, the private sector,
academia, and civil society organizations/non-governmental organizations
(CSOs/NGOs). U.S. Common Agenda participants, including
such institutions as the Common Agenda Roundtable (CART) and the
CSO Network in Japan, and the Common Agenda Public Private
Partnership (P-3) have provided grassroots level input and advice on
Common Agenda activities. As a public–private partnership, the organizers
of the Common Agenda hope that their efforts can create an