‘Peace-loving’ Japan to ease weapons export rules amid rising security tensions

27/10/2025
‘Peace-loving’ Japan to ease weapons export rules amid rising security tensions

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The new Japanese government has moved swiftly to make it clear that it intends to relax the rules covering exports of weapons abroad at a time of worsening global insecurity and rising defence spending.
Shinjiro Koizumi, who was named defence chief when Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi announced her new cabinet on Tuesday, used his first press conference the following day to lay out the administration’s aims, adding that the revised policy had the full support of the ruling Liberal Democratic...

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