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Defense budget rises with funding for stealth fighters, long-range missiles

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By MARI YAMAGUCHI

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A good start, but Japan needs to build bombers and aircraft carriers. Next up, long range missiles that can hit China and North Korea.

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Japan calls China a threat to regional security while continuing to do massive business with them which is what contributed to and continues to contribute to China becoming a military power. The Japanese Govt. having China as an economic ally and a military enemy is win-win for them but lose-lose for the Japanese taxpayers.

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Good news, as defense only works if you have at least a little something to defend yourself with. Buy the best on the market and in sufficient numbers!

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Wow what beautiful military 4wd just superb one

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Still don’t get why a county with no natural recourses an aging population, huge national debt feels it’s a jewel for others? But feels the need to turn tax payers upside down shack out their pockets to protect the tax payers from? Starting to think those that shack the tax payers might be a bigger national threat.

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iluvyokohamaToday  05:03 pm JST

Japan calls China a threat to regional security while continuing to do massive business with them which is what contributed to and continues to contribute to China becoming a military power. 

The United States is far more responsible than Japan. It's only after Nixon opened up PRC in 1971 that Japan's Tanaka signed a Treaty with them in 1972. The U.S. lead getting the WTO to accept the PRC. Not Japan.

And yes, the U.S. (as well as the rest of the world) calls China(PRC) a "threat" because they are.

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Though spending more on arms development/adjustment is ok, Japan also needs to tackle manpower shortfall, especially further improvement in-house training and salary increase to retain qualified SDF staff (not specifically noted above, I think that the current increase definitely aims for it).

Like many civil organisations and communities in the country, the SDF is also facing aging phenomenon. The recent (re) arrangements of Aegis defense systems reflect this point.

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WAR on Sight!!! all profits for US. Japanese will pay for it..............

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A smart move with China continuing to increase it's military spending every year it forces it's neighbors to do the same. China has a formidable defense able to defend itself against anyone. China has no natural enemies that threaten it today so one wonders why it continues to build up a military that gets bigger each year. For what purpose could it possibly need such a massive armed force? The answer is frightening for the future of the region.

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Japan is shielding the developing countries from China's influencers not just for its own safeguard but for the sake of poor countries. China led the economies of all countries down after making the entire world in trouble by promoting covid, now seeking to put the poor countries in debt and interfere in matters of neighbouring countries. Recent leakage of database by Chinese spy in the UK has led to the threat of UK protection.

Suga is well aware by Chinese strategy, So he has put the great initiative for the saftey of Japan and his neighbour.

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Meanwhile, they have to raise taxes again because there's no money to deal with the aging population problem and the resulting consequences, and no money to put into our accounts again during Corona.

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SmithinJapan

3 lost decades Smith. Wasn't because we spend on the military that's for sure.

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Japan should have been preparing for war with the CCP 5 years ago not now, NOw is too late, Japan should have already been militarily strong enough so the CCP understood it could not tackle that dog and behaved, but now CCP thinks Japan and its neighbours are easy target and so they push n bully and intimidate, its well past the time that they were shown some force and sat back down and told to shut up or they be getting a beating,

The more Japan arms up the sooner japan arms up and the bigger japan arms up the better show some guts and heart and stand up to the bully confront bluster with a full magazine cocked and loaded aimed directly at the trouble makers forehead,.

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