Japan's prime minister, Fumio Kishida, pledges a military build-up and a plan to tackle his nation's rapidly declining birth rate.
abc.net.au/news/japan-security-fumio-kishida/101884566Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has said Japan faces the severest security environment since the end of World War II, pledging to push a military build-up and tackle a rapidly declining birth rate.
In his policy speech opening this year's parliamentary session, Mr Kishida said active diplomacy should be prioritised, but required "defence power to back it up". "I make it clear that there will not be even a slightest change from Japan's non-nuclear and self-defence-only principles and our footsteps as a peace-loving country," Mr Kishida said.This month, Mr Kishida took a five-nation tour — including to Washington DC in the US — to explain Japan's new defence plan and further develop defence ties with its ally the United States.
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