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Japan secures extra cost cuts on U.S. F-35 fighter jet package

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By Tim Kelly and Nobuhiro Kubo

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Japan’s splurge on U.S. equipment has put a strain on its finances. In 2016 procurement through the Foreign Military Sales system totaled 485.8 billion yen compared with 117.9 billion yen three years earlier.

Blame the defense budget....don't blame Abe for spending billions, upon, billions, in ODA, on infrastructure to nowhere, etc etc etc. Strain? Obviously written by a dove.

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Total waste of money.

The only thing Abe does well.

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War machines are a waste of money When their is a bigger problem fixing up Tepco,s mess Where this money could go or to those displaced because of the melt down from neglect to have backup generation that worked for cooling water.

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We wouldnt need all these planes if we didnt have China and North Korea

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With China continuing to up the ante, Japan doesn't have much choice.

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Japan has the best negotiator in White House now. Thanks to the president F35 is cheaper.

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Total waste of money.

So Japan should use more or less outdated F-15 instead?

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Very qustionable deal. F-35 is too costly, untested, with a host of still unresolved problems. In Nov.2016 Canada cancelled its plans to buy 65 F-35s. Why Japan should buy it? Better develop its own fighter plane.

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beets me why money needs to be spent this way we need to get rid of poverty first world wide including Japan and the Philippines

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That's good. The original price of that F-35 is terribly expensive. I think there is not enough money to buy them in Japan.

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