TOKYO (Reuters) -U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is set to hold talks with his Japanese counterpart Shinjiro Koizumi in Tokyo on Wednesday, as Japan strives to fortify its defence posture and strengthen its decades-old alliance with the United States.

The meeting comes a day after Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi told visiting U.S. President Donald Trump that she was determined to bolster Japan’s defence capabilities and expressed her desire to realise a “new golden age” of the alliance.

Japan already hosts the largest concentration of U.S. forces overseas, including an aircraft carrier, a Marine expeditionary unit and dozens of fighter jets.

Takaichi said in her policy speech last week that the government plans to raise Japan’s defence spending to 2% of gross domestic prod

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