With a willing partner in Nippon Ishin, the ruling LDP is advancing its defense export ambitions.
Tatsuta, the eleventh Mogami-class frigate on order for the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF), is launched in a ceremony held at MHI’s facilities in Nagasaki, Japan, July 2, 2025.
Japan’s new administration led by Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae is striving to step up exports of defense equipment, seizing the opportunity created by the pacifist Komeito party’s exit from the ruling coalition and the entry of the right-leaning Nippon Ishin no Kai (Japan Innovation Party) as its new partner.
Under the Cabinet decision made in 2014 under the administration of then-Prime Minister Abe Shinzo, Japan’s guidelines on the Three Principles on Transfer of Defense Equipment and Technology allow exports only for five no
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