TOKYO -- Japan is considering operating a joint exercise area with the U.S. Army in Tinian in the Northern Mariana Islands, a U.S. commonwealth in the western Pacific Ocean, to enhance reciprocity between the two countries and strengthen their long-standing bilateral military alliance.
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