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发帖数: 6973 | 1 Martin Fackler, With Its Eye on China, Japan Builds Up Military; For Tokyo,
big change in postwar strategy. New York Times, Mar 1, 2011.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/01/world
/asia/01japan.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=naha&st=cse
("For now, at least some of its neighbors appear willing to accept a larger
Japanese military presence. The new Japanese strategy received very little
opposition in South Korea, which analysts say now sees China, and also North
Korea, as bigger threats than Japan. In fact, South Korea and Japan are now
negotiating their first military cooperation agreements since Japan’s
colonial rule ended in 1945")
Note:
(a) Yuichi HOSOYA 細谷 雄一
(b) The report says, "The increases [military build-up] are also limited by
Japan’s own economic weakening: its military spending has been shrinking
for the past decade along with the size of its overall economy, with little
prospect of future increases. Japan’s defense budget has decreased 5.2
percent since 2001 to 4.68 trillion yen, or $56.4 billion at current rates,
though it is still estimated to be one of the five or six largest in the
world.
Jon Hilsenrath and Megumi Fujikawa, Japan's Bernanke Hits Out at His Critics
in the West. Wall Street Journal, Mar 1, 2011.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424
052748704615504576172381917735372.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
("He [Masaaki SHIRAKAWA 白川 方明, governor of Bank of Japan, Japan's
central bank] argues that the Bank of Japan's hands are tied because weak
consumer spending and business investment are related as much to the country
's declining population, which the bank can't control, as to money supply,
which it can")
There is no need to read th rest of the WSJ report.
(c) Akihisa NAGASHIMA 長島 昭久
(d) A related report:
中国军力增强 日本印度各有应对
http://www.voanews.com/chinese/news
/20110301-CHINA-INDIA-JAPAN-MILITARY-117146143.html | c**i
发帖数: 6973 | 2 I just added (1) and (3), under "Separately." |
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