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[Graphic News] Japan eyes defense budget increase

Published : Sept. 1, 2013 - 21:17:12

Korea Herald

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Japan’s Defense Ministry is looking for its biggest budget hike in two decades, partly to create a Marines-like force, as neighbors fret about Tokyo’s rising assertiveness.

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