Japan's 2023 fiscal year defense budget application for innovation high

On August 31st, the Ministry of Finance of Japan announced the total application for the 2023 fiscal year budget submitted by the government departments on August 31. Among them, the defense budget application volume was as high as 559.47 trillion yen (about 278.4 billion yuan), a record high.

According to Japanese media reports, the new fiscal year budget application submitted by the Ministry of Defense increased by 3.6 % compared with the 2022 fiscal year. There are more than 100 budget applications, and the projects are unusual. In addition, there are a large number of projects that do not have a clear amount. The Japanese media quoted insiders of the government reported that, coupled with these unclear projects, the final defense budget in fiscal 2023 will exceed 6 trillion yen or 6.5 trillion yen.

It is worth noting that in the new fiscal year budget application, the province of defense is listed as the first priority, which is the so -called "anti -counter -fighting ability" that enhanced the range from the enemy's missile. Japanese media analysis said that this was formulated by the Prime Minister Kishita Tianshiong's previously proposed to allow Japan to have the goal of "the ability to attack the enemy base". In this regard, Japan's opposition party has opposed it, arguing that the government has quickly advanced towards the direction of "anti -counter -counterattack ability" without the review of Congress.

Kishida Wenxiong said in May that the new fiscal year's defense expenses will "increase significantly significantly." The Liberal Democratic Party of China intends to increase the proportion of defense expenses in Japan within 5 years from 1 % to 2 %. In this regard, the Japanese party did not agree.

Source: Xinhua News Agency

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