Japan to upgrade its cruise missiles in big defence spending push
日本将大幅增加军费开支
Japan will upgrade its cruise missiles and research hypersonic weapons as it seeks to significantly increase military spending to counter what Tokyo sees as the rising threat from China.The defence ministry on Wednesday made a record ¥5.6tn ($40bn) budget request for the year to March 2024, compared with ¥5.4tn in planned spending for the current fiscal year.
日本将升级其巡航导弹并研究高超音速武器。目前，日本正寻求大幅增加军费开支，以应对在其看来中国构成的不断上升的威胁。
But people with knowledge of internal ministerial discussions said the final budget would top at least ¥6tn after the inclusion of additional requests for military equipment to be made at the end of 2022, when Japan will release a new national security strategy and defence guidelines. This would make the figure one of the biggest increases in the country’s military spending in the postwar period.
周三，日本防卫省为截止2024年3月的财年提出了创纪录的5.6万亿日元（合400亿美元）的预算申请，而本财年的计划支出为5.4万亿日元。
Tokyo has been steadily increasing its defence budget for the past decade, but spending has remained equivalent to about 1 per cent of gross domestic product, which is low by global standards.
但了解内部部长级讨论的人士表示，计入将在2022年底提出的——届时日本将发布新的国家安全战略和防卫指导方针——增加军事装备的额外申请后，最终预算至少会在6万亿日元以上。这意味着，下一财年将是战后日本军事开支增长最多的年份之一。
