Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen (left) and Director General Tsutomu Kawara (right), of the Japan Defense Agency, meet with senior advisors and ambassadors at the Pentagon on Jan. 5, 2000. Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Walter Slocombe (3rd from left), Ambassadors Thomas Foley (4th from left) of the U.S. and Shunji Yanai (far right), of Japan, as well as the two interpreters, joined Cohen and Kawara in discussing a range of regional and global security issues.