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Japan likely to increase defense spending due to isles row: media
TOKYO |
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's government is likely to increase defense spending for the first time in 11 years, Japanese media reported on Saturday, as newly elected Prime Minister Shinzo Abe pledges a sterner response to a territorial dispute with China.
The government is considering increasing defense spending by around 2 percent to more than 4.7 trillion yen ($53.4 billion) in the fiscal year starting in April, the Mainichi newspaper reported. It gave no source for its information.
The extra spending would be used to increase personnel in the ground self-defense forces and upgrade equipment for land, air and maritime forces, the Asahi newspaper also reported on Saturday. It also did not cite any sources.
Japan's Defense Ministry has scrambled F-15 fighter jets several times in recent weeks to intercept Chinese marine surveillance planes approaching the disputed islands near Taiwan. The islands are known as Senkaku in Japanese and the Diaoyu in Chinese.
The Japanese government administers the islands and purchased three of them from a private owner last September, sparking violent anti-Japanese protests across China. Beijing also claims the isles as part of Chinese territory.
There is a renewed focus on whether relations between China and Japan will improve after voters swept Abe's conservative Liberal Democratic Party back into power last month after three years in opposition.
Abe has repeatedly said there is no room for negotiation on the islands and has said he would boost defense spending to counter China's growing military clout.
(Reporting by Stanley White; Editing by Paul Tait)
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That’s the best antidote for their predatory, activity on the world.
Japanese, having created such a successfully Aryan race propaganda in the western world and in the media, can get such egregious support for covering up the massacre, rape and abuse of hundreds of millions of people, many times worse than Hitler. And Reuters support Abu’s distortion of Japanese Nazi’s victims as Nazi—- Reuters is the most egregiously unfair news agency.
Display the Nazi Japan with the master massacre of KUchins and Rohingyas, Burmese dictator, as if they are no dictators.
IF tthey can force a censorhip, they change the front headline, so that readers will be misled and duped by Reuters effective censorship by making it a separate post with the same picture.
ONe day, a book will be published on how Reuters cover up more massacre victims’ suffering than the victims under Hitler —- all done by helping Cyber-bully, history distorter molest war victims and defame them as Hitlers or Communists.
Reuters has lost all credibility.
I see the 50cent crowd are posting and reposting the same anti-Japanese (or anti-whoever the current territorial victim of Chinese aggression is) propoganda.
Yes Japan was a facist imperialist, yes my country was a victim. But anyone who blames Japanese children 3 generations after these crimes is a facist criminal themselves, who’s only goal is revenge and blood and theft. Like the racist nationalistic doctrine being preached by the Pro-CCP/Pro-Territorial agression posters of Reuters.
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