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© (c) Copyright Thomson Reuters 2017.Japan secures extra cost cuts on U.S. F-35 fighter jet package
By Tim Kelly and Nobuhiro Kubo TOKYO©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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Yubaru
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.
BertieWooster
Total waste of money.
The only thing Abe does well.
Ron Barnes
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.
kiyoshiMukai
We wouldnt need all these planes if we didnt have China and North Korea
serendipitous
With China continuing to up the ante, Japan doesn't have much choice.
socrateos
Japan has the best negotiator in White House now. Thanks to the president F35 is cheaper.
bass4funk
So Japan should use more or less outdated F-15 instead?
Asakaze
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.
Ron Barnes
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
Poor English Speaker
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.