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▼ Japan's FY 2025 Defense-Related Outlay To Total 1.8% Of FY 2022 GDP
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Japan's defense-related spending for fiscal 2025 is expected to total about 9.9 trillion yen ($70 billion), equivalent to 1.8 percent of gross domestic product three years earlier, Defense Minister Gen Nakatani said Tuesday.
Nakatani told a press conference that the government will allocate around 8.5 trillion yen for its defense budget and about 1.5 trillion yen for related outlays in its initial budget for the current fiscal year starting this month.
In updating the long-term National Security Strategy policy guidelines in late 2022, the government set a goal of raising defense-related spending to 2 percent of that fiscal year's GDP by fiscal 2027 and pledged to obtain "counterstrike capabilities" to strike enemy territory directly in an emergency.
The latest estimate was released at a time when the United States under President Donald Trump has been increasing pressure on its allies, including Japan, South Korea and NATO members, to shoulder more of the costs for their defense and for hosting U.S. military forces.
The figures "show our efforts to strengthen our defense capabilities are steadily progressing" toward the numerical target, Nakatani said. Japan is increasing its spending in response to security challenges, such as China's rapid military buildup and North Korea's missile and nuclear development.
Having a war-renouncing Constitution, Japan had long capped its defense spending at about 1 percent of GDP, or around 5 trillion yen.
Nakatani told a press conference that the government will allocate around 8.5 trillion yen for its defense budget and about 1.5 trillion yen for related outlays in its initial budget for the current fiscal year starting this month.
In updating the long-term National Security Strategy policy guidelines in late 2022, the government set a goal of raising defense-related spending to 2 percent of that fiscal year's GDP by fiscal 2027 and pledged to obtain "counterstrike capabilities" to strike enemy territory directly in an emergency.
The latest estimate was released at a time when the United States under President Donald Trump has been increasing pressure on its allies, including Japan, South Korea and NATO members, to shoulder more of the costs for their defense and for hosting U.S. military forces.
The figures "show our efforts to strengthen our defense capabilities are steadily progressing" toward the numerical target, Nakatani said. Japan is increasing its spending in response to security challenges, such as China's rapid military buildup and North Korea's missile and nuclear development.
Having a war-renouncing Constitution, Japan had long capped its defense spending at about 1 percent of GDP, or around 5 trillion yen.
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