From left: Air Vice-Marshal Michael Kitcher, Deputy Chief Joint Operations of the Australian Defense Forces; Maj. General Nobutaka Minamikawa, Defense Plans and Policy Department of the Japan Self-Defense Force; Brig. Gen. Rommel Cordova, Assistant Deputy Chief of Staff for Plans of the Armed Forces of the Philippines; and Maj. Gen. Jay Bargeron, Director for Strategic Planning and Policy Directorate of the US Indo-Pacific Command. The first Philippines-United States-Japan-Australia Joint Service Staff meeting was held in Tokyo, Japan from November 28 to December 1 to further deepen discussion on upholding a rules-based international order.