Kyodo News Sunday (June 25) quoted the insiders, and the Japanese government had stated to the Liberal Democratic Party of the ruling party that if the purpose of the use of the "alert" specified in the current system is the five areas of non -fighting.The weapon of force can also be exported.This includes the "reconnaissance alert vehicle" with the land self -defense team equipped with the machine gun and the mine -sweeping ship of the Maritime Self -Defense Force.
It is reported that Minister of Defense Hamada Yinichi said at a press conference that the "three principles of defense equipment transfer" and pointer of the "defense equipment transfer" stipulated in the export rules did not mention whether they could export the weapons with the ability to kill, but only expressed the actual situation to the actual situation.Export "make individual judgments".
The insiders of the Japanese ruling party proposed to relax restrictions, mainly considering that Japan and the United Kingdom and Italy decided to jointly develop the next generation of fighters. Cooperation means that Japan can no longer strictly adhere to the combat equipment developed by the third country.
According to the current regulations of Japan, Japan only allows exports or transfers and "rescue", "transportation", "monitoring" and "minesweeper" and other military equipment exports without killing.
