What does Japan’s Military Expansion mean for the Region? | Inside Story December 19, 2022 Unipro2013main Military Trends </p> <h2>Japan wants to significantly increase its military spending</h2> <p> Japan says the strategic challenge posed by China is the biggest it has ever faced.<br /> Besides Beijing, Japan has two other nuclear-armed neighbours in North Korea and Russia.<br /> It has expressed concerns about intensifying Russian military activity in its far east, even as Moscow presses on with its war against Ukraine.<br /> And a North Korean missile flew over Japan in October.<br /> Japan wants to significantly increase its military spending, targeting $315 billion in the next five years, or 2 percent of its GDP.<br /> But Tokyo’s plans are a reminder of an imperial past when it occupied the Korean peninsula and parts of China and seized all of East Asia during the second world war.</p> <p>So, what does the new military drive mean for Japan’s Pacifist Constitution?<br /> <br /> Credit to : Al Jazeera English</p> <p> Please support our Sponsors -
