Is Japan Done With Pacifism? New Defence Budget Raises Questions | Vantage With Palki Sharma | N18G
Japan has approved its biggest-ever budget — and it’s more than just numbers. At 122 trillion yen (about $785 billion), Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s first budget comes as Japan faces a slowing economy, a weak yen, rising bond yields, and growing public debt. But the real headline is defence. Tokyo has cleared a record 9 trillion yen military budget, driven by rising tensions with China and concerns over Taiwan. From long-range missiles and drones to satellites and surveillance networks, Japan is reshaping its security posture. Is Tokyo moving away from post-war pacifism or preparing for a tougher world? Palki Sharma tells you.
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42 Comments
If China attacks Taiwan the International Trade Shipping Sea lanes will be block by China and Japan will not allow that happen
The beautiful and kind Rena
0) Mainland China is the real bully to ASEAN with its SCS 9-dash claim. USA Democarcy is better than china communist. Chinese are very racist. proof is everywhere there are china town. It means chinese do not willing to mixed around even to homeland people. a very arrogant attitude. China should let go Taiwan and respect Tawainese desire to favor democracy! Why China is so greed?? a the expense of war??? Typical stupid/greedy communist
1) To be world leader it cannot depend on technology & economics factors alone. It has to be politically, culturally and militarily. China being a communist system can never beat US in terms of politically, culturally and militarily. let me elaborate >>
a) Culturally –> For example everybody in this planet instantly know google, Coke, Pepsi, starbuck, Mc Donald, KFC and many other iconic US brands. everybody also knows hollywood movies and songs.
b) Politically –> US still has many Allies including in Asia -> Japan, South Korea , Australia, NATO, India plus many south american country
c) Militarily –> US is still number one on this. What US keep secret is only known when the real conflict begins. US has many secret weapon in secret lab which is still not known yet. It will be reveal only when real conflict start. If China think it is superior, US will test it by letting China invade Taiwan first. So far China do not dare to attack Taiwan despite many provocation from US. All it does is firing a fireworks – ha3 . US just waiting for China to see if China dares to invade Taiwan. So far China is a coward. It has to be because deep inside CHina knew teh terible consequences if it invade Taiwan. See if teh same is done to Hawaii for example !
d) US has many experience enganging in REAL war, while China has little. China historically is a coward society – The Great wall of China is a manifest of this where China emporer hide cowardly behind the wall from smaller Mongolian army. In a real conflict another risen power i.e. India, Australia, Japan, UK , south Korea, Nato will surely sided with the US.
2) Even economically as at today US is still the largest. Only by 2030 onwards China is projected to beat the US in GDP. In Nov 2021 China tried to sabotaj US Dollar by introducing Digital Yuan but until today US dollar keep on strong without any impact. This proves how strong is the dollar. FYI US has its equivalent digital dollar since 2015 i.e USDT/USDC.
3) *Conclusion – China cannot and NOT FIT to be world leader*. It is a closed mindset evil communist regime. I prefer democracy anytime. But I am a democrat. I let others to freely choose whicever system align to themselves. I really dont mind. The world need USA to contain China, otherwise the world would be under worse situation under evil communist system. Developing nations may not like how the United States handles some situations, but they’ll be much worse off under the bootheel of the evil communist China. China is very Evil, US is the lesser evil…solution > USA should set up Asian NATO !
US need a strong leader like Trump…teach communist/cartel/terrorist a lesson to trade fairly, stop copycat , comply to IP rights, etc.. and if needed strike China/cartel/terorrist without mercy
Great Japan , keep it up! Time for Japan to reassert it Defence Strength.
Go Japan!
You know something is cooking. Ab to purane khiladi bhi maidan me aa rhe hain 😮
ONly 80 years have passed since the most brutal war on humanity has ever occured across East and SE Asia, and YES it was Imperial Japan! Guess no one in India can understand as the Himalayas protected you from this.
Its the rise of fascism !
Looks like Japan's PM.is nothing but a puppet of the west😂
never trust USA they always betray their allies …..
インドなのか?人のことは言えんだろ。
Honestly considering how dangerous the world is, Japan should now defend itself against possible Chinese aggression and North Korea missile antics.
Same thing happened in India – budget and economy was bad When Indira Gandi was threatened by Pakistan, China and the west. Sanae Takaichi will overcome it.
Le Japon n'a pas besoin d'avoir peur de la Chine, si le conflit entre la Chine et le Japon éclate un jour, l'inde sera la pour l'aider militairement.
India has to prepare for the war with China after Taiwan it may be South China Sea or india border himalaya and sea and this time the war will be three front war china, Pakistan, Bangladesh and internal Jiadist people and this time to be prepared like Israel, Russia where every people has to be prepared for military training otherwise we will pay huge price with the dirty politics and negligence government
It also target your indian buddies in Japan to go back to your country Patel haha
Parki stop your propaganda, you didn’t mention what happened before China locked it radar on Japanese jet. You use that Chinese action to spread propaganda to your subscribers but you didn’t mentioned how it was Japan that started it first.
They don’t have a choice. Dumb question
CCP Releasing the Massive Covid19 Virus in 2020 from Wuhan to the Whole World ,
yes they did it , but if you say this Truth , They will KILL you in China , cause they are the Pure EviL NaziPunks in China
MAKE JAPAN GREAT AGAIN
USA STANDS WITH YOU
Japan has always been used by US just like in 1985 which caused Japan's stagnation, and now US using Japan again
Japan has two face, one is polites and kind to westerner the other are evil and brutal to Asian.
To understand why Japan increases budget, people must know where we live.
Modern economy has been established by the victor of WW2, U.S.A. U.S.A has proposed free trade to counter communism.
Free trade has functioned by sea route is secured by U.S NAVY.
Japan is demanded by U.S.A to take its role at North Western Pacific to India, so that U.S.A can concentrate to itself.
Which means Japanese increased budget is not for fighting war is China.
However, if China challenges the sea route of global economic system, Japanese navy will counter it.
Lets be technologically independent in defence at least. Thats something India should strive to achieve first.
Gogo Takaichi, Continue the Anti-CCP stance until CCP falls
Japan is transforming itself from fantasy pacifism to realistic pacifism.
This is where XRP comes into play
India and Japan should form alliance.. India should support Japan..
Gas frente libing rusia
That's a lot of money 🤑. Go Japan 🇯🇵 you have the right to defend yourselves
This overpassed chinas
It is laughable that China condemns Japan for increasing its defence budget while spending more than four times what Japan spends.😂
– China spending over $230 billion annually (around $247B for 2025) compared to Japan's record ¥9 trillion (~$58 billion for FY2026), but Japan is rapidly increasing spending to 2% of GDP, aiming to become the world's third-largest spender, driven by regional threats, especially from China, focusing on high-tech capabilities like drones, while China maintains massive troop numbers and hardware.
Does it say Japn's 90% of the debt is held internally not by outsiders
Awesome Japan
Most of Japan's debt is Japanese government bonds issued by the Japanese government, which has the right to issue currency. Since they are circulated domestically, there is no problem. They are fundamentally different from the debt of countries that owe money to other countries.
Still, no cows are wandering in the house.
Except China, which is 350% of GDP. I wouldn't wipe my butt with the Yuan or blow my nose with the rubble, I mean the Russian Ruble.
Protect yourself. Everybody knows what happening in Ukraine. Despite Ukraine having the protection and peace agreement with US, UK and Russia, Russia still break the agreement and US and UK are also hesitate to help with the full support. On-paper allies are good but nobody will truly help if something bad happen.
China did not cite the UN charter of the right to attack Japan in any sign of militarisations to imperial Japan's ambitions red line.
Basically, China will destroy Japan before Japan can acquire strike threat capacities to China.
Where is Japan getting $$$ from? Japan’s GDP is going backwards towards 1980! One of the highest? lol it is the highest by far in debt!
A warrior nation will be a warrior nation. Nothing beats 87 MILLION dead under Mao however. But that unit 731 was pretty evil under japanese rule. That ginrmous navy in the Sth china sea should concern every nation in that region. Yes Japan wasnt good in WW2 , that doesnt meen China is good in 2025. Post Mao.
Japan did become the first country to build railgun when both US and China failed to do it in recent years!