EXPLAINER: Why Japan is boosting its arms capability, budget
Japan this week adopted a new national security strategy that includes determination to possess "counterstrike"
The biggest change in the National Security Strategy is possession of “counterstrike capability” that Japan calls “indispensable."
DOUBLING DEFENSE SPENDING
Japan aims to double its defense spending to about 2% of its GDP to a total of about 43 trillion yen
LONG-RANGE MISSILES
Over the next five years, Japan will spend about 5 trillion yen
CYBERSECURITY
Japan, lacking sufficient cybersecurity and intelligence capability
CHINA AS ‘GREATEST STRATEGIC CHALLENGE’
Fear of a regional security environment described as “the severest and most complicated”
STILL EXCLUSIVELY SELF-DEFENSE?
Because of its wartime past as aggressor and devastation after its defeat
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By Agatha Android
January 16, 2020