While Prime Minister Kishida has expressed his intention to increase defense spending, he has drastically improved his defense capabilities, including missiles that can attack from outside the enemy's range, with a draft of the defense field of this year's basic policy of economic and financial management, "Honebuto no Hoshi". It turned out that we will set out a policy to strengthen it.
In the draft of the "Honebuto no Hoshi", in the defense field, in addition to the competition between the United States and China and the military invasion of Ukraine by Russia, there are attempts to unilaterally change the status quo in East Asia, and the security environment is severe. It is said that it is increasing.
Based on this situation, we are accelerating the examination of national security strategies that will be revised by the end of the year, and have announced a policy of drastically strengthening our defense capabilities.
Specifically, while strengthening defense capabilities such as long-range cruise missiles "stand-off missiles" that can attack from outside the enemy's range, unmanned aerial vehicles, and capabilities in new areas such as space and cyber, AI We are planning to promote research and development of advanced technologies such as.
Regarding defense equipment, the company will place importance on maintaining and strengthening its domestic production base, and will consider more in-depth efforts, including a review of export and relocation systems.
The government plans to proceed with concrete examination of the defense budget in the future, considering that Prime Minister Kishida has indicated at the previous Japan-US summit meeting that he has decided to increase Japan's defense spending considerably.