Japan, US to hold talks on cyber security

Japan and the United States will hold their first working-level talks on cyber security at the beginning of next week, said Japan's Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera on Friday. The minister said that the two allies, during the two-day meeting, would like to improve their technological levels through cooperation with the United States, which has the most advanced technology and human resources in the field, according to local reports. The meeting, which will be co-headed by Ro Manabe, Japan's deputy director general of the Bureau of Defense Policy, and U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense John Davis, will discuss how to share information and train experts, Japan's Kyodo News quoted Onodera as saying. In October, Onodera and his U.S. counterpart Chuck Hagel agreed to establish a framework for officials at the vice-ministerial level to coordinate efforts to counter cyber-attacks.