The budget request was approved at the Defense Ministry meeting Friday before a submission to the Finance Ministry for negotiations through December. Japan has been rapidly building up the defense of the southwestern region in recent years amid China’s growing military threats and tension in the re...
Japan’s defense budget boom will bring it in line with the rest of the western-oriented countries; NATO suggests a defense spending of two percent GDP for member states. One percent was unsustainable given China’s large and growing military, Russia’s willingness to invade its neighbors, and...
Japan's Ground Self-Defense Forces (JGSDF) soldiers take part in a live fire exercise at the JGSDF's training grounds in the East Fuji Manuever Area in Gotemba on May 22, 2021. (AKIO KON / POOL / AFP) TOKYO - Japan'sdefense ministryis seeking an annual budget increase that will add ...
MELBOURNE, Australia — Japan’s Defense Ministry has requested another record defense budget, with the agenda featuring naval vessels, F-35 fighter jets, hypersonic weapons development and armored vehicles. The ministry announced Aug. 31 that it submitted a request for $52.9 billion to the Finance...
Japan's Ministry of Defense (MoD) proposed a defence budget of JPYS.49 trillion (USD52 billion) for fiscal year 2021 (FY 2021) on 30 September, putting a stronger emphasis on three new defence domains: space, cyber, and electronic warfare (EW). If approved, this would represent a 3.3%...
Japan’s defense budget will grow 2.2 percent in the next fiscal year from April, Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera said yesterday, posting the biggest rise in nearly two decades.The budget increase comes
While Japan's newly unveiled defense budget represents the third small hike in a row after decades of low spending, experts say such spending remains insufficient to fund Tokyo's plans for "dynamic defense forces."
Reports the commencement of negotiation for the fiscal 1996 Japanese Defense Agency (JDA) budget. Proposals by various coalition partners; Domination of JDA procurement by various Japanese contractors.MechamMichaelSekigawaEiichiroAviation Week & Space Technology...
The request, still pending parliamentary approval, is a record for an extra defense budget and will bring Japan’s military spending for the current year to a new high of more than 6.1 trillion yen ($53.2 billion), up 15% from 5.31 trillion yen in 2020. The combined budget for 2021 will...
31 (Xinhua) -- Japan's Ministry of Defense will submit to parliament on Wednesday a record-high budget request for the fiscal year 2017, marking the fifth annual increase since Prime Minister Shinzo Abe retook office in 2012. The defense ministry's budget allocation is a 2.3 percent increase...