1.   China has strongly criticized new cooperation guidelines as directed at a perceived security threat stemming from its increased influence in the region.

2.   Jiang also reportedly pressed Obuchi to promise that recently updated defense cooperation guidelines with the United States would not require Tokyo to join any U.S. military actions around Taiwan.

3.   Japan sent a team of officials to Beijing Sunday to explain new defense cooperation guidelines being worked out with Washington, the Foreign Ministry said.

4.   The protesters adopted a resolution opposing recently updated U.S.-Japan defense cooperation guidelines and using land in Kyushu as a permanent military base, Kyodo News agency reported.

5.   Also recommended were a set of technology transfer principles and science cooperation guidelines, and the creation of trade and investment ombudsmen.

6.   Beijing has voiced its concern over US-Japan moves to review their defense cooperation guidelines aiming to broaden the scope of cooperation outside of Japan.

7.   Japan has started a review of its military cooperation guidelines with the United States in April last year.