Japan’s defense ministry seeks record budget as it faces growing threat from China
TOKYO — Japan’s Defense Ministry on Friday sought a record 8.5 trillion yen budget for the next year to fortify its deterrence on southwestern islands against China’s increasing threat.
The budget request was approved at the Defense Ministry meeting Friday before a submission to the Finance Ministry for negotiations through December. A hefty 970 billion yen of the budget request for 2025 covers the cost of bolstering strike-back capability with the development and purchases of long-range missiles and equipment for their launch, including from an Aegis-class destroyer. About one-third of it goes to a satellite constellation aimed at bolstering the capability to detect missile-related activity, as North Korea, China and Russia develop hypersonic missiles that are harder to detect and track.
“Due to declining childbirths and working age population, it is inevitable that Japan will face a society of serious labor shortage,” the ministry said in an interim report on human resources, also released Friday. “We need to build an organization that can fight in new ways while strengthening defense power.”
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