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The end-2014 gofl of reviewing the bilateral defence guidelines looks as if it is slipping.

That is to build a consensus at home so the revised defence guidelines for co-operating with American forces can be implemented without further ado.

Many ordinary Japanese are concerned, he added, that new defence guidelines with America, agreed this year, will drag Tokyo into a conflict – possibly with China – at US behest.

Mr Clinton's 1996 joint declaration on security with Japan, before he began the tilt towards China that culminated in his trip to Tiananmen Square, yielded a new set of defence guidelines that tightened American-Japanese co-operation a bit.

In Tokyo defence guidelines to be released at the end of the year appear likely to articulate a new policy of patrolling the seas and skies around the Senkaku islands constantly, rather than intermittently, as now.

The two countries are preparing to revamp their joint defence guidelines for the first time in 17 years.The reinterpretation was not quite as radical as some Americans had hoped for, says James Schoff, a former Pentagon official, but it will pave the way for the two armed forces to plan, train and operate more seamlessly.

The mood music had grown exuberant on April 27th, amid the announcement of new joint-defence guidelines to bolster America and Japan's security partnership.

At the bilateral talks, foreign-affairs and defence officials chiefly discussed Japan's military policy in particular, the first revamp in two decades of joint-defence guidelines between America and Japan.

That is why, in the words of one senior Japanese diplomat: "We need to play our own part in ensuring the pivot is not a sort of one-off, short-term policy".Japan is revising its joint-defence guidelines with America to foster "seamless and effective" co-ordination between the two countries' armed forces in areas such as logistics, intelligence, missile defence and cyber-warfare.

The changes, reflected in new US-Japan defence cooperation guidelines, will also expand the scope for Japan's military to provide logistics support to friendly countries, relax limits on peace-keeping operations and make it easier to respond to "grey zone" incidents falling short of war.

The government has postponed decisions on defence and security guidelines.