Japan to pay 80,000 Afghanistan police salaries

Tuesday 24th February, 02:32 PM JST

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bobcatfish at 04:54 PM JST - 24th February

i'd rather be homeless in japan than a policeman in afghanistan. stop thinking about arbitrary boundaries. most of us are world citizens. almost none of us is a japanese citizen.

$2 billion since １992 for the second or third biggest economy. still not overly generous.
Sarge at 05:27 PM JST - 24th February

Perhaps the government could spend 520 million yen to certify more doctors and nurses so that hundreds of people requiring emergency medical attention won't be turned away at hospitals in Tokyo.
shoguinn1 at 05:33 PM JST - 24th February

franz75 Tell that to all the people out of work and no job.
franz75 at 05:56 PM JST - 24th February

shoguinn1: Afghanistan has to be rebuild. Only one country can't pay.

This strategy will pay (hopefully) in the long term.
franz75 at 05:57 PM JST - 24th February

Sarge: Just digging in the coffer does not solve the health care problem.
OneForAll at 06:02 PM JST - 24th February

Japan, USA, Taliban, Al Queda, Warlord...does not matter who pays the bills. Someone must or families do not eat. That is the way it has been in Afghanistan for many years, so I have heard. Better get some industry there if things are ever to change.
moonbeams at 06:12 PM JST - 24th February

I'm happy that money is being provided for Afghanistan's security. I don't mind at all that it's from my taxes.
smithinjapan at 06:53 PM JST - 24th February

gogogo: "Come on!? you have Japanese people living homeless in "tent city" and we're giving money to other countries? Sure they have it bad as well but if you can give this sort of money to other countries why can't you support your own as well?"

The answer's simple; it doesn't matter if Japan puts itself into the depths of despair and destitude, so long as someone else says, "You are good".
mareo2 at 08:28 PM JST - 24th February

Great... we barely manage our own country and we are told to take charge of the world problems. I dont mind send help to zones devastated by things like Katrina and Tsunamis, but funding other gob?
nagoyait at 09:13 PM JST - 24th February

franz75 - Yeah help a country that doesn't want help while Japan jobless goes without. Really it's about the USA and what they want for he defense of Japan IE Clinton's little visit. USA just wants to stop "Taliban" and opium coming from there. Lets get it straight. The drunk boozer leaders of Japan just care about who knows what. Who the hell is the leader of Japan anyway? Prolly another boozer......
knews at 09:39 PM JST - 24th February

There was an amount agreed upon ($2 billion) and Japan is keeping that promise. All developed countries give money to developing countries even though the developed countries themselves aren't always in good shape. That's the way it is. Budgets are planned, implemented and, ideally, stuck to. The bottom line is that money does help and Japan is still in much better shape than Afghanistan, right? I hope so anyway...!
YuriOtani at 11:35 PM JST - 24th February

Will they learn how to sit around the Koban, drink green tea and eat rice crackers?
seesaw at 11:43 PM JST - 24th February

A country which recently had 85,000 people being unemployed, is doing the paymaster job for another country's manpower payroll? What a big joke. Japan needs to stop being 'KAKOI' abroad....
Kalinikos at 01:00 AM JST - 25th February

It's Japan's pure marketing! And political decline!

OR

If Japan don't help Afheganistan then who cares...? Where are ONU...?
Anomaly_Jr at 05:57 AM JST - 25th February

Why is this still on the front page?