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Japan's defense budget likely to top Y5 trillion for first time

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A total and complete waste of money!

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And the military manufacturing machine rolls on. What power these weapons manufacturers have over governments worldwide is amazing. Year after year we here the same story from governments worldwide, increased military spending, while there own countries are facing so many problems. Citizens are suffering too many varying degrees of hardships, the gap is widening at an alarming pace between those that have, and those that don't have. There still lies a huge problem between politicians and those mindless career bureaucrats referred to as mandarins( a public official in the Chinese Empire of any of nine superior grades) notice the word in the definition, "superior" things have never changed, politicians can't function without them ,and politicians don't have the balls to challenge them, so things are never going to change. Welcome to democracy.

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Ah! Fat times ahead for Abe's buddies! Lean times for you and me.

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That money could have been spent helping Fukushima recover instead of making a not needed American airstrip!

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Or one sixteenth of what Japan has been able to create seemingly out of nothingness per year without causing domestic inflation. I think the defence budget is set to increase further.

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Japan’s defense budget for the next fiscal year is likely to top 5 trillion yen for the first time

Why by the cow when you can get the milk for free..... The US is a security partner right?? Spend the money getting Japan in order J Govt. Lower taxes, increase minimum wage to 1200 yen an hour and make up the difference for firms that can not pay so much and Fukushima needs some major attention...

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Stop wasting bloody taxpayers money! Get some nukes made in Japan, and you wouldn't be ridiculed as neutered dog. Stand on your own feet!

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Really not happy about the wanton misuse of MY taxes.

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And this is with the"huge" U.S.military presence.

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Geez...what a joke. And to think this news site only yesterday deemed it perfectly fine to simply take cheerleading bureaucratic claims about the "rebounding economy" at face value and post it as a factual headline (see, for example: http://www.japantoday.com/category/business/view/monthly-wages-raised-by-record-margin-in-2015-on-economic-recovery)

At least this report is an improvement, but the money is a waste and will not at all help those in need right here in Japan

Meanwhile, real investigative reporters at the LA Times are headlining with ACTUAL facts about the dire economic situation in Japan: http://www.latimes.com/world/asia/la-fg-japan-children-20151205-story.html

Over there you'll discover that far from a "economic recovery," fully 16% of Japanese children live in households that earn less than $9,900 a year, while the number of working poor in temp jobs now tops 37% of the workforce! Meanwhile, Japan's "womanomics" push is getting nowhere, with Japan ranked 101st out of 145th in gender equality! "Abenomics has not succeeded in improving economic growth," said Mari Osawa, a social policy analyst and professor at Tokyo University. "The only fields where it had a positive effect is the stock market and on the huge exporting enterprises."

With all these terrible shortcomings within its own people and population, you'd think Taisho Abe could use this military spending on something more necessary and less wasteful...but no...

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SerranoDec. 05, 2015 - 10:52PM JST And this is with the "huge" U.S.military presence.

Most of which Japan pays for.

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