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In the summer of 2009, the Council on Security and Defense Capabilities, which had been appointed under the Prime Minister House of Japan, submitted the final report. It aimed to advise for the quadrennial review of National Defense Program Guidelines, and the new administration which was organized from September 2009 ordered the Council be reorganized, pushing the new deadline of the review for a year. However, the Council's report of 2009, so-called Katsumata Report, indicated the one important change of Japanese security thinking.With the concept of multi-layered cooperative security strategy, it introduces "cooperation in the region" as one layer of Japanese strategy. For examples, as shown in the participation to multinational military exercise Cobra Gold and Malabar, Japan has increased opportunities of security cooperation with the US friends and partners. Japan has already declared bilateral security cooperation with Australia and India. The inclusion of "the cooperation in the region" in this top-rank report suggests that the security arrangements with the non-ally states is now regarded, by Japanese policy circles, as the tool for Japanese security policy as well as the cooperation with the US and the international society. Then, what do they aim to achieve by the cooperation in the region? What extent do they believe the cooperation in the region supplement the cooperation with the ally and the international society? Does this new inclusion of the layer imply the changes of overall Japanese security strategy and interests behind that? What do they aim is merely the cooperation in the region, not with the (overall) region? It is common to discuss on Japanese security policy by Article Nine, defense budget and procurement, civil-military relations, and the out-of-area cooperation under Japan-US relations. This paper, on the contrary, tries to shed light on the increase of Japanese regional security arrangements. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]