Japan's Cabinet has approved an 8.7 trillion yen ($55 billion) defense budget for 2025, marking a significant increase in military spending as the country seeks to bolster its defense capabilities in the face of growing regional threats.
TOKYO — Japan 's Cabinet approved on Friday a record 8.7-trillion-yen ($55-billion) defense budget for 2025 as the country accelerates building up its strike-back capability and starts deploying Tomahawks to fortify itself against growing threats from China, North Korea and Russia. The Cabinet-endorsed draft defense budget marks the third year of Japan 's ongoing five-year military buildup under the national security strategy it adopted in 2022.
The defense spending is part of the more than 115-trillion-yen ($730 billion) national budget bill — also a record — that requires parliamentary approval by March to be enacted.The East Asian country is preparing to deploy United States-made Tomahawks late in fiscal year 2025 as part of efforts to acquire strike-back capability with long-range missiles that can hit distant targets. The budget allocates 940 billion yen ($6 billion) for the so-called standoff defense system that also includes satellite constellation and other arsenals.The cost includes 1.8 billion yen ($11.4 million) for the purchase and addition of equipment to launch Tomahawks from Aegis-class destroyers.To reinforce its missile defense system, Japan plans to spend another 533 billion yen ($3.37 billion) that includes buying interceptors and a mobile reconnaissance radar to be placed on Okinawa, where more than half of about 50,000 American troops are based.Under the defense strategy, Japan aims to eventually double its annual military spending to around 10 trillion yen ($63 billion), making it the world's No. 3 military spender after the United States and China.As part of the military buildup, Japan is pushing to strengthen its largely domestic defense industry by participating in joint development and promoting foreign sales.For 2025, Japan plans to spend 31
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