Above: Japanese helicopter carrier Izumo, which will be converted to carry F-35s.
Tim Kelly – Reuters Dec 21, 2020
Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga’s government approved a ninth consecutive rise in military spending on Monday, funding the development of an advanced stealth fighter and longer-range anti-ship missile to counter China’s growing military power.
The Ministry of Defense will get a record 5.34 trillion yen ($51.7 billion) for the year starting in April, up 1.1% from this year. With Suga’s large majority in parliament, enactment of the budget is all but certain.
Suga is continuing the controversial military expansion pursued by his predecessor, Shinzo Abe, to give Japan’s forces new planes, missiles and aircraft carriers with greater range and potency against potential foes including neighbouring China.
China plans to raise its military spending 6.6% this year, the smallest increase in three decades.
Japan is buying longer-range missiles and considering arming and training its military to strike distant land targets in China, North Korea and other parts of Asia.
A planned jet fighter, the first in three decades, is expected to cost around $40 billion and be ready in the 2030s. That project, which will be led by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd with help from Lockheed Martin Corp, gets $706 million in the new budget.
Japan will spend $323 million to begin development of a long-range anti-ship missile to defend its southwestern Okinawan island chain.
Other big purchases include $628 million for six Lockheed F-35 stealth fighters, including two short-takeoff and vertical-landing (STOVL) B variants that will operate off a converted helicopter carrier.
The military will also get $912 million to build two compact warships that can operate with fewer sailors than conventional destroyers, easing pressure on a navy struggling to find recruits in an ageing population.
Japan also wants two new warships to carry powerful new Aegis air and ballistic missile defence radars that have much as three times the range of older models. The government has not yet estimated the cost of the plan, which replaces a project cancelled in June to construct two ground Aegis Ashore stations.
This policy by the Japanese and the recent US and UK increase in military spending while their people go increasingly hungry is an extension of Herman Goerring’s claim, “The people want bombs not butter.”
Big wheels keep on turning, mostly with the intention of keeping the worlds general populations living in fear and paranoia. There may be some small conflicts if there are enough people willing to engage in them, but big conflicts are not in the best interests of the owner, rulers who want to keep their terra playground intact.
“The people want bombs not butter.”….yeah and the All-lies delivered them on to the heads of German civilians by the hundreds of thousands, even after Hitler Demanded six times over three months that the British halt their bombing of civilians in 1940. The Germans had only been hitting military targets up to that time. The war criminal Churchill brought on the “blitz” by his actions.
Without Caucasians/Aryans existing on this planet & developing/transporting their superior technology into Africa, Asia, Latin America; the moronic masses of Afro-Asian apes would still be monotonously stagnating in their primitive Neolithic societies.
That Goering statement-“a people get strong on iron and steel, not Butter und Schmalz” was satirised in a Jew cartoon where a family are munching on machine guns and nuts and bolts and declaring “Hurrah–die Butter ist alle!” (meaning all gone)
Dear Mr. Rixon, WHY do you even SUFFER comments like Max X? Nobody will accuse you of “infringement on freedom of speech” if you ignore this troll. Why do you allow this to pollute our minds? Do you perhaps have ulterior motives to post such love-less waffle? Like causing division for some handler? What other motivation could you POSSIBLY have?
Curb the race baiting please.
Neo keeps changing his name. I do not know since when; and it is impossible to be so insistent and repetitive if you are just a person, and unhelpful to say we got it wrong in 1939 when we cannot change that even if we did. I approve of him trying to increase the level of Race loyalty in Whites, however, because we suffer from a big Racism gap today and I need Whites to stay in existence. If you think your Race is good you are relaxed about Race-consciousness.
Mr Max is stating the obvious!
It maters not how much Japan blows on over-priced military hardware, China will still stomp them into the ground and use the Japanese as public urinals if it comes down to it. And that payback has been a long time coming.
@Lu…its not my fault that you find the truth disagreeable..
@Max X Enjoy being ignorant, racist and a troll? Then again you are likely being paid for your actions to incite hatred and division…
You claim without Caucasians/Aryans the world would be in the stone age essentially. Yet you conveniently ignore the fact it was the Chinese who developed gunpowder, the driving force behind the British Empire!
The Arabs who developed modern medicine and the modern Mathamatician formulas (without these would be no computers) used in all high technology to this day!
Without either race developing the above (just a small example of everything the Western nations took for granted and now try and claim they invented such, lol) Western nations would still be fighting each other to see who can invade and occupy England the longest!
You should go back to the dark ages and enjoy what your ancestors are capable of on their own!
Oh and Aryan are derived from the Turkish Ottomans, so you accept the fact that the majority of Europe has Persian roots, without even knowing this fact lol. But of course ignorant and uneducated hate mongers have no need for facts or truth.
Jojo–that is wrong about gunpowder, because the Ancient Greeks used a mixture of chemicals that destroyed ships, known as Greek Fire, and, although the Chinese are credited with the wheel-barrow, that was a Celtic invention. We lived near them, but they hate foreigners, lacking self-analysis while being slavish imitators, such that I doubt they invented anything. There is a Greek history they(Greeks) lost but which Egypt preserved. Their nation had a long slumber.
Jojo made other errors–what Arabs did was be, for a while, the custodians of Greek achievement, due to Alexander, who invaded, and whose men married into, Persia etc. Cro-Magnon made paintings in Europe 30 000 years ago which happened to be preserved in caves. “Aryan” is a word we cannot derive easily and may have been picked up in India by the British. As for “…who can invade England the longest”, it is a baffling thing to say, and suggests very muddled thinking.