Analysts: Japan Strengthening ASEAN Security Ties to Contain China  

FILE - Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, right, shakes hands with South Korea's President Yoon Suk Yeol during the ASEAN-East Asia Summit in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on Nov. 13, 2022. A Japan-ASEAN summit begins Saturday in Tokyo.

Tokyo has been expanding its security ties with multiple Southeast Asian countries ahead of a Japan-ASEAN summit that analysts see as a forum to offset China's aggressive behavior in the region.