Defense ministry seeks Y730 mil for land-based Aegis missile system

Sounds way too cheap.

I bet couple of zeros are missing in this price tag.

Japan must undoubtedly be in the process of building the most robust and reliable missile defense system possible. Not doing so would be insane.

This is just for the plan! Surveying and designing deployment. As Peter K wrote, a couple of zeros need to be added to this number to get to the real figure.

Then they need to plan and design a system to authorise someone to fire it, without spending hours communicating with the defence ministry.

730 million, but tax, plus over budget costs, plus maintainace, plus upgrades, plus giving all our military information collected directly to USA, plus total replacement cost when outdated, plus 2 more systems for 2020, 8 more fore 2022, plus...

You have to agree that Trump did a good job for the US military industrial complex there, going to be the same in SK ...

Does this system even work? I mean under real life situation...not test.

Next missile that Kim fires towards Japan...lets see this thing in action.

Or...(as I suspect) it might not work and then we'd look pretty stupid wouldn't we.

If it hits on the button. Take all the money you need. It'd be money well spent imo.