Feb. 24 (UPI) -- Japan and the Philippines agreed to a "strategic dialogue" as a means to bolster defense tech and equipment cooperation, both nations announced Monday. At a meeting in Makati City in the metro Manila area, Japanese Defense Minister Gen Nakatani and his Filipino counterpart Gilberto Teodoro signed on to a new high-level deal framework that called for meetings between the Philippines and Japan to talk over defense and technology equipment needs amid "unilateral attempts by China