The Japanese cabinet approves the second additional budget this year, allowing the defense department to get 446.4 billion yen (about S $ 4.3 billion) to replenish budget expansion.
Japanese media pointed out that in this way, the total defense expenditure in Japan has increased to 5.8 trillion yen, breaking through the top government of 1%of the GDP (GDP), reaching 1.04%.
Japanese defense official said that more than half of this supplementary budget is used to create a new security system, including the land-equipped land interception missile "Patriot 3" (PAC-3) to strengthen the deterrence of the Japan-US alliance.
The official explanation of the defense, the increase in budget increases due to weak yen, of which 48 billion yen are used to subsidize fuel and high equipment costs.
Tokyo News reported that, in general, the Japanese government launched a supplementary budget, only to deal with disasters and economic recessions.However, before the late Prime Minister Shinzo Abe opened a precedent, and included military expenses into the additional budget.This has become a new normal, and the additional amount has exceeded 400 billion yen for five consecutive years.
Current Affairs News Agency quoted the data from the Japanese Maritime Security Agency to the surrounding waters around the "invasion" of Chinese official ships (China known as the Diaoyu Islands), and a series of missiles launched a series of missiles in North Korea are the addition of budget increases, and compared to last year, compared to last yearTwice as much.
The official plan of defense plans to cost 76 billion yen to build two large -scale patrol ships to strengthen Japanese air defense and sea -making capabilities.
The Kyodo News Agency quoted relevant government sources that in order to strengthen the air defense capacity, the official plan to build two new warships equipped with aegal combat system, and considers the introduction of small hullsmissile.
The Japanese Conservative Newspaper Production News also depreciated by the yen, calling on the Kishida government to increase its military budget.It believes that the current budget of the government is not "significantly increased".
It is reported that Japan's military expenditure is not as good as other countries.It quotes the military expenses of the World Bank in 2020, referring to the US $ 778.2 billion in military expenditures in the world, US $ 252.3 billion in China, US $ 72.8 billion in India, US $ 49.1 billion in Japan, ranking first, ranking first, ranking first, ranking first, ranking ranked first.Nine.If the current $ 1 is calculated against 147 yen, Japan is 36.7 billion U.S. dollars, or it has fallen behind the 10th South Korea ($ 45.7 billion).
