U.S.-Japan defense industry ties a model for other nations: Emanuel

WASHINGTON -- Cooperation on the development, production and maintenance of weaponry set to kick off between the U.S. and Japan can be applied to other countries, U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel told Nikkei Asia in a recent telephone interview.

"No country like Japan has this much manufacturing, this much engineering, this much industrial potential that has been untapped," Emanuel said, describing it as offering a "blueprint of what we can do with other countries."