The Defense Budget stands at $59.3 Billion (+ $281 Billion for new purchases).
Mate if your Defense budget is $281 billions then it is around 4.5% of your GDP.Are you absolutely sure about this figure.I mean isn't there a provision in Japanese Constitution that prohibits your Govt. to spend more than 1% of the GDP on defense
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.Anyways best wishes to JSDF and it's personnel
Japan should have an Air Force around 540 latest Fighter Jets
Mate if your Defense budget is $281 billions then it is around 4.5% of your GDP.Are you absolutely sure about this figure.I mean isn't there a provision in Japanese Constitution that prohibits your Govt. to spend more than 1% of the GDP on defense
Btw if it's really $281 billions then you can literally buy a 1000 F-15 strike Eagle and will still have more than $150 billions left in your kitty
Well said,our Japanese friends may disagree or not happy,but the truth is Japan is an occupied country,the US treat Japan like it's slave,see cuurent Russia-Ukraine issue,this is not Japanese Bussiness,but they have no choice,only can follow US order to sanction Russia,even this action hurt Japan's won interests.Japan is not independent in real sense
Some Japanese have been voicing out against Okinawa occupation, in-fact Japan's Ex-Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama (16 September 2009 to 2 June 2010) promised to end the US occupation of Okinawa, but stepped back later for unknown reasons (possibly US pressure) BBC News - Okinawa voices: 'No more bases!' His inability to fulfill his promise of closing down the US base in Okinawa lead him to resign from his office http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052748704875604575281292285208862?mod=googlenews_wsj&mg=reno64-wsj&url=http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704875604575281292285208862.html?mod=googlenews_wsj. Everyone in Japan knows that her (Japan's) foreign policy is not independent and protects US interests rather than of Japan's. This is however, a sensitive topic, and nuclear-stung Japanese don't like to talk about it. It is pity that a brave nation such as Japanese have lost their ability to resist following two nuclear explosions, but who knows, maybe others would submit to the Americans too if they were nuked in similar fashion. We can only imagine the psychological impact the two nuclear explosion had on the Japanese. It was so huge an impact that Japanese, even after 60 years, are willing to take their arch enemies as friends and allies.
Yukio Hatoyama is a good guy,I like this man,and admire his pan-east Asian idea,he is right,American occupation is the biggest problem here,after he step down,he visited China many times,he want the cooperation between the two peoples
Some CCP elites are pro-US,I think we can see from their actions,in China,one can very pro-US,but those pro-US guys always pretend very anti-Japan,I don't know the reason.
I also like the idea of great East Asia, but japan currently is the taking advantage of the China-US game, surely able does not like China and he doesn't like US either although he pretend to be a US fanboy. The fact is if we want to challenge the west, we have to beat japan first, otherwise we have no way to ever access the west pacific, let alone a blue water navy.
I think Abe doesn't want to be American slave,but his actions actually fit for US interests,not Japanese interests,what he really thought actually not that important.Let me remind that,after the PRC founded,we always support the Okinawa back to Japan,the pro-US elites think China is Japan's threat,do they think China will take Japanese lands?If they think so,they are foolish.The Diaoyu islands issue actually created by the US,the US government hand the islands to Japanese,but they didn't hand over the sovereignty to Japan,and claimed they will not take side in the Territorial disputes,I think they acrually play clever in this game.
