As China threat looms, Japan’s Abe reverses 2010 cuts, expands military

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pmshinzo — Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

With tensions between China and Japan rising rapidly, Japan’s new cabinet under Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has decided to augment its armed forces known collectively as the Japan Self-Defense Forces by as many as 18,000 troops.

This was a direct reversal to the previous cabinet’s 2010 defense guideline which proposed to cut Japan’s armed forces by 1,000.

In 2010, the government was led by the Democratic Party of Japan [DPJ] with Yoshihiko Noda as the prime minister.

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As China threat looms, Japan’s Abe reverses 2010 cuts, expands military added by World Tribune on January 20, 2013
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