Japan: Increasing "Defense" Budget, Joining NATO and the Chinese "Threat" Are Good for Business

Editor's note: Unfortunately, NATO is moving east setting Japan up against China in a further expansion of a NATO (annual loot intake: $3.6 billion) anticipated war with China. The story goes "Japan seeks NATO's help to counter China", but that is simply cover story for the G7 countries against Russia. It is now a matter of calculating how much money is going to be sucked out of Japan's economy to buy weapons and munitions - from the US. NATO networks are going out of their way to create threats. Despite China expressing caution, Japan's PM Kishida has plans to attend the NATO summit in Lithuania between July 11-12 as Japan begins to significantly increase its "defense" budget. And the irony is, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace ("peace" means war) tells us Japan's expenditure on weapons is "still not enough". As the brain becomes the battlefield of the future, if anyone objects to NATO's eastern expansion and expresses this we guess this would be considered "disinformation."
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Source: The Japan Times

Japan and NATO to work more closely in areas of disinformation and space

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida meets with U.S. President Joe Biden and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz at NATO Headquarters in Brussels in March 2022. | POOL / VIA REUTERS

June 25, 2023

Japan and NATO are preparing a new document to strengthen their cooperation in areas including disinformation and outer space, with China and Russia in mind.

Tokyo hopes to release the document by the time of Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's trip to the NATO summit in Lithuania in July, sources said.

In January, Kishida held talks with NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg during his visit to Japan.

The two leaders agreed to "elevate current Japan-NATO cooperation to new heights that reflect the challenges of a new era," according to a joint statement issued after their meeting.

The statement also confirmed the importance of deepening cooperation in areas such as outer space, critical and emerging technologies and the fight against disinformation.

"NATO is advanced in countering disinformation, and we want to strengthen collaboration," a senior Foreign Ministry official said.

The planned document between Japan and the trans-Atlantic alliance is an Individually Tailored Partnership Program, or ITPP, which will replace the existing Individual Partnership and Cooperation Program, or IPCP.

While the IPCP lists cyber-defense and maritime security as priority areas of cooperation, the ITPP will add new areas of cooperation such as security.

Since Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine, Japan has emphasized cooperation with NATO, saying that the security situations in Europe and the Indo-Pacific region are closely linked.

Kishida attended a NATO summit in Spain in June last year, becoming the first Japanese prime minister to participate in NATO's top-level conference.

NATO is also considering establishing a liaison office in Japan, regarding the Asian nation as a partner.

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