Pacifist Japan seems to be double up in arms exports

Japanis famous for her pacifist The constitution is now determined by the global weapons export market sights.

Defense Minister Gen Nakatani Earlier this month, Nikkei was aimed at being catering to Japan’s self-defense forces or JSD for the Self-defense forces or JSD.

Prime Minister Shedal, Cashiba, focused on the defense sector and became the first meeting of the Prime Minister DSEI JapanThe largest defensive exhibition in the country.

When is the turn in the posture at one time Global Defense Costs He was in the dance, Japan’s motifs are more related to security concerns than gaining an increase in global weapons, informed CNBC.

The biggest cause of this landslides is to deepen the relationship and increase the interaction of Japanese forces with allies and partners, Rinlaro Inoue, Rintaro Inoue, a toky-based meditation center in the Geoeconomic Institute.

By exporting their weapons abroad a The country is capable of improving interaction With the parties to the procurement by standardization of maintenance processes for supply and joint training opportunities.

“Therefore, the Prime Minister (Shinzo) Abe has created the concept of ‘Contributing to peace, which aims to deepen cooperation with other Western countries in this area,” he said.

If the late Abe was in the office, he strived to reconsider the interpretation of Article 9 of Japan to allow JSDF to allow JSDF helps more actively to defend international peacekeeping efforts and allies.

Japan wants to develop the defense industry base in 2022, in 2022 to increase the defense budget in 2022. Export will allow you to achieve economy to the economy needed to produce internal more Rapess.

Instead of investing in the internal defense base in Japan, the country has taken weapons from the United States as F-35 fighter jets and SPY-7 Radar systems.

“This has created a serious situation between the defense industry in Japan, and several companies left the industry, especially in the supply chain,” he said. In 2023 More than 100 companies reported Leaving the defense industry in the last 20 years.

Naoko Aoki, political scientist, political scientist Tank Rand, Japanese defense firms traditionally operated by JSDF with limited internal demand. Being able to export defense elements, it means that companies will be a larger customer base, to develop production capabilities, reduce costs and more comfort.

“Although JSDF needs more, for example, these companies think that these companies think that they are a one-time requirement, they will not want to invest in new devices to ensure more of them.

From 2024, Japan’s weapons exports stopped in 21 million TIP – only 0.1% of global arms exports Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. Tive or Trend-indicator is the size of the volume of international transfers of the main conventional weapons.

For comparison, the neighboring South Korea exported 936 million TIV in 2024, 3.3% of global weapons exports, TIV for China, the largest Asian weapon exporter and the largest Asian weapons exporter, accounted for 3.9% of global transport.

Veteran investor David Roche, in the strategist in the quantum strategy, defending as the growth sector. “The request will exceed the supply over ten years,” Said. Thus, it is important to build an internal capacity.

Roche, when peoples like Japan stay depending on the United States, the more operational approach of the Trump management will be forced to pay more for their protection or US defense equipment

Roche, US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth pointed to us 2025 Shangi-la dialogue, At the beginning of this month – “We ask – and really insist that our allies and partners include the protection of our partners … NATO members, even 5% of Germany GDP.”

“Thus, there is no point in do so for the countries in Europe, the main allies in Asia spend less protection in the face of a certain danger to not celebrate North Korea’s North Korea,” he said.

“If they are unsuspecting to respond to the US agreement, individual nations must ensure their safety and spend a lot of money,” Roche said.

Japan was adopted in 1967 “Three principles on weapons export“These restricted weapons exports and later these principles have practically expanded arms exports, except for the transfers of military technologies in the United States

From this position under this position in the country, the former Prime Minister Fumio Kishida relieves twists in 2023.

This Most recent changes Allow the external defense firms produced in Japan, including finished products, including the country of licensing and from there to third countries.

For example, Japan agreed in late 2023 Exercise Patriot Interceptor missiles, which are exhausted by the shares after submitting these missiles to Ukraine – in accordance with the license.

Neighboring South Korea saw the growing global interest Weapon industry and trying to be a great global weapon supplier. Will Japan be able to compete? Experts are different.

Roche says that Japan will be knowledge, skills and technology for the main supplier of weapons, but IOG’s inoue warns that it can face production problems related to the increase in the population of Japan and the growth of the elderly.

“I think that Japan is very difficult to focus on production work again,” he said.

Rand’s Aoki still pointed to serious rules. “Japan has a technical capacity to do many things, but the export rules remain strong, mainly, the Defense Industry base and industrial countries, especially the United States, can use export connections, especially in the use of US defense connections