CNN: Japan’s largest military buildup since World War II
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Japan has unveiled a new national security plan that marks the country’s largest military buildup since World War II, doubling defense spending and abandoning a pacifist constitution in the face of growing threats from regional rivals.
In an early evening televised address in Tokyo, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said the government had approved three security documents — the National Security Strategy (NSS), the National Defense Strategy and the Defense Forces Development Plan — to bolster Japan’s defense capability in an increasingly unstable security environment.
The new measures include provisions that would allow Japan to have “counterstrike capabilities,” that is, the ability to directly attack another country’s territory in an emergency and under certain circumstances, Kishida said. Earlier in December, the prime minister instructed his defense and finance ministers to provide funds to increase Japan’s defense budget to 2% of current GDP in 2027, according to Defense Minister Yasukazu Hamada.
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