Japan requests record $53 bn defence budget

Japan's defence ministry on Thursday requested a record budget worth $53 billion for the next fiscal year as tensions rise with China and North Korea. Prime Minister Fumio Kishida last year unveiled a major security overhaul including a pledge to raise defence spending to two percent of GDP by 2027. The...

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