US demands Japan to increase spending on the maintenance of the US army

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US demands Japan to increase spending on the maintenance of the US army

The United States demanded that Japan quadruple the cost of maintaining the US military contingent in the country. This is reported by the magazine. Foreign Policy with reference to their sources in the Washington administration.

According to the publication, Washington demanded that Tokyo annually allocate eight billion dollars for the maintenance of American troops deployed in Japan, instead of the two currently allocated. This requirement was transferred to the Japanese authorities in July, who at that time held the position of Assistant to the President of the United States for National Security, John Bolton.

As it became known, in March 2021 the agreement expires, under which the United States deployed more than 50 thousand US troops on Japanese territory, and Japan pays 2 billion dollars a year for this. Washington demands to include in the new agreement a four-fold increase in this amount - up to approximately 8 billion.



The United States also demanded a fivefold increase in the cost of maintaining its troops from South Korea. According to available information, we can talk about the amount of 4,7 billion dollars. The demand for increased contributions on November 6 was voiced by James Dehart, United States chief defense negotiator.

According to Washington, the costs of US security for the allies are too high. As part of the agreement on assistance and mutual defense between the United States and South Korea, about 28,5 thousands of American troops are located in the country. Their maintenance costs the United States 5 billion dollars with South Korea spending a little more than 900 million dollars a year.

Earlier, US President Donald Trump has repeatedly stated that the United States will no longer pay its own funds to ensure the security of allies.
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    1. +6
      16 November 2019 07: 46
      Yes, the US will not refuse impudence and selfishness. Are the Japanese and Koreans so stupid that they don’t understand any security whatsoever and there can be no talk from the United States. They just milk them like cows keeping their bases in their territories. War and local conflicts have long been over, and no one threatens anyone with a war. It is time to throw off this hated yoke and stop bowing slavishly back to these ghouls.
      1. +4
        16 November 2019 07: 52
        Just settled well, "independence" of Japan and Yukoray laughing
        1. 0
          16 November 2019 08: 49
          Thanks to the "efforts" of Poland and the Baltic states, the "military umbrella" of the Yankes DARKLY rose in price for the allies.
          1. +2
            16 November 2019 17: 57
            Here I keep a moped in the garage of a neighbor.
            Now you need to ask for money from my neighbor for the billets of my moped ...
            Although ... The neighbor is not Japanese. No, I won’t demand from him.
            laughing
            1. +1
              16 November 2019 18: 25
              Quote: Shurik70
              Here I keep a moped in the garage of a neighbor.
              Now you need to ask for money from my neighbor for the billets of my moped ...
              Although ... The neighbor is not Japanese. No, I won’t demand from him.
              laughing

              "I will not demand" - why ?! Is it worth it? Worth it! Let the neighbor bet!
              (at least for trust!)
      2. +2
        16 November 2019 07: 53
        Vae victis ... As old as the world.
      3. +1
        16 November 2019 08: 25
        And what did they expect from the country of the occupier ... the result is in person.
        1. +7
          16 November 2019 08: 43
          hi Mattresses greyhound because they know that neither Japan nor South Korea has their own forces and the will to kick them out. So they will endure ...
          1. +1
            18 November 2019 03: 16
            Quote: bouncyhunter
            strength and will


            Pavel. Strength, maybe there is. CAN I say.

            There is definitely no will!

            Paul hi .
      4. -15
        16 November 2019 08: 29
        War and local conflicts are long over

        What do you say when China wants to eliminate its competitor (South Korea) and set Kim on it?

        It is precisely the Americans who are holding off North Korean aggression, and it was they who liberated South Korea too.
        1. +4
          16 November 2019 10: 02
          Quote: maden.usmanow
          War and local conflicts are long over

          What do you say when China wants to eliminate its competitor (South Korea) and set Kim on it?

          It is precisely the Americans who are holding off North Korean aggression, and it was they who liberated South Korea too.

          And if you look at the situation from the other side? Maybe due to the fact that there are China and North Korea that will deter the aggression of the Americans occupying South Korea, and who disunity the united people, constantly create provocations against the Northern neighbor.
        2. +3
          16 November 2019 10: 12
          Quote: maden.usmanow
          It is precisely the Americans who are holding off North Korean aggression, and it was they who liberated South Korea too.

          From whom did they liberate her? From the Koreans?
          1. -1
            16 November 2019 12: 19
            Here's how to respond to this?

            Busan bridgehead

            Google
            1. +4
              16 November 2019 17: 33
              Quote: maden.usmanow
              Here's how to respond to this?

              In words. I ask you again. From whom the United States freed Korea. From the Koreans? There is no need to cover up with a highbrow snobbery a curvilinear understanding of history. Korea fought within itself, Koreans and Koreans. The United States got into a civil war and tore Korea in half. From whom did they liberate her?
              1. 0
                16 November 2019 20: 21
                From the Japanese. From the south to the 38th parallel. Yes
        3. +3
          16 November 2019 11: 45
          Quote: maden.usmanow

          It is precisely the Americans who are holding off North Korean aggression, and it was they who liberated South Korea too.

          Yeah, "released". Was it not with their participation that all the existing problems of the region were created? The Koreans and Japanese have to understand only one thing, namely that the further the "liberators" stay, the safer the situation in the region will be for their states.
          1. -6
            16 November 2019 12: 43
            With their participation, and with even greater participation of the Soviet Union.
            In Korea
            First Union and China Support the DPRK in the occupation of the entire peninsula, then the US is interfering.

            Vietnam

            First union supports the North Vietnam then the US is interfering.


            The Koreans and the Japanese must understand only one thing, namely that the further the "liberators" stay, the safer the situation in the region will be for their states.


            There is no "vacuum". After the collapse of the Union, and the withdrawal from Eastern Europe, the Americans came, the communist regimes were replaced by democratic ones.
            After the Americans leave, both Japan and South Korea will turn red, or force them to do so.

            "liberators"


            I forgot Japan after all NOT occupied Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Malaysia, Philippines, New Guinea, Hong Kong and that same Korea.
            1. +3
              16 November 2019 13: 00
              What Japanese nyashki after they broke their teeth, so do not capture.

              In December 1941, the Japanese captured Thailand, the islands of Guam and Wake, Hong Kong, Singapore, part of the Philippines. In May 1942, Japan recaptures the entire southeast of Asia and the northwestern islands of the Pacific Ocean.
              The Nazis are just schoolchildren compared to the atrocities of the Japanese in Korea and China.
              Let the samurai humiliate themselves and disgrace further.
            2. +2
              16 November 2019 17: 47
              Quote: maden.usmanow
              First, the Union and the PRC support the DPRK in the occupation of the entire peninsula, then the United States intervenes.


              ???? Supported in the occupation? And how many divisions did the USSR direct to occupy Korea? Why did the US get into a civil conflict?

              Quote: maden.usmanow
              Communist regimes were replaced by democratic ones.


              Ah, now I understand. You are either simply illiterate or a clinical "liberal". Remember, so as not to disgrace yourself publicly: the antithesis of the "communist" is the "capital". And the antithesis to "democratic" is not even "authoritarian", but "absolutist".
              The change of the political system or even the OEF is not an occupation, it does not need to be exempted.
              1. -1
                17 November 2019 03: 39
                If you deny the colossal Soviet support for the DPRK in the Korean War, I have nothing to talk about with you.
                Yes Yes. No one was sent, and Kim Il Sung was not captain of the Red Army.
                phah.
                Now, as if the Internet is there, rinse your brain with all kinds of fools.
                the union can set the DPRK on South Koreans, and they must endure.
                the union can intervene, supply weapons, its fighters, its specialists, and others cannot.

                Yes Yes Yes.
                1. 0
                  17 November 2019 11: 03
                  Quote: maden.usmanow
                  If you deny the colossal Soviet support for the DPRK in the Korean War, I have nothing to talk about with you.

                  Do not deny. But the support of Koreans by any country in the world does not mean an invasion of this country. The USSR did not fight on the side of the northerners. Soviet regular units were not part of the north. There was no occupation of Korea, except for the state. Therefore, to free Korea was her from whom. Only from the Koreans themselves.

                  Quote: maden.usmanow
                  No one was sent, and Kim Il Sung was not captain of the Red Army.

                  Do not twist the tail and do not bounce. How many divisions? Or did the USA liberate Korea from two dozen Soviet instructor pilots? Along the way, destroying everything in the north and killing hundreds of thousands of Koreans?
                  And the fact that Kim served in the Red Army and the SA, well, well, in the Republic of Ingushetia and the USSR there was at least a 300th Korean diaspora.
                  By the way, I remember one British officer who was so robust in the Middle East. Did this mean inexorableness to free BV?

                  Quote: maden.usmanow
                  the union can intervene, supply weapons, its fighters, its specialists, and others cannot.

                  Now? Now the supply of weapons to conflict zones is prohibited, although everyone spits on this, of course. And yes, the supply of weapons is not a reason for a full-scale US invasion. The United States destroyed Korea in spite of the USSR and there was no liberation there at all. They killed Koreans, not Russians.

                  Quote: maden.usmanow
                  the capitalist regime does not say that.

                  Do not persevere in delusions. A regime is a way of exercising power. Capitalism is a way of organizing production and a form of ownership. The capitalist and communist regime is a journalistic and liberoid g-post, outstanding author's illiteracy. Do not be like. No communist regimes have ever existed anywhere. There is no such thing in any science and never has been. Read what a political regime is and do not disgrace. Your brains were talking for you like newspaper slag, now you have North Koreans who are already occupiers and you need to free Korea from them.
              2. 0
                17 November 2019 04: 01
                there is no such thing as capitalist regime
                this is not the way to say it. They don’t speak at all.

                the most accurate wording in relation to the countries of the social bloc of Eastern Europe - communist regimes
                not authoritarianism, not absolutism, namely communist regime
                This is the most accurate wording.
    2. +2
      16 November 2019 07: 52
      Washington says US spending on allied security is too high

      And as you know, the salvation of drowning is the work of the drowning themselves, so drive eight lard. Only business, nothing personal hi
    3. +1
      16 November 2019 08: 04
      As someone ancient said: "woe to the vanquished ..."
    4. +1
      16 November 2019 08: 07
      So they demand from all of them ... Money. A state with unimaginable debts requires a large army ... the largest army in the world. And then they may ask wassat but not enough money. Well, vassals, quickly threw themselves off.
    5. +1
      16 November 2019 08: 09
      Gopnik in one word.
    6. 0
      16 November 2019 08: 16
      And you are all about the islands, some kind of Japanese ...
      Make money better.
      1. +1
        16 November 2019 10: 49
        And you are all about the islands, some kind of Japanese ...
        Make money better.

        So that's the problem. The owners said: either wring out the islands from Russia, or pay the loot. But I don’t want to pay. But Russia is squeezing, not giving up the island.
    7. 0
      16 November 2019 08: 16
      It was said a long time ago - 100% of the cost of bases, plus maintenance, plus 50% for the fact that it is not you yourself who "protects" you, but we, it was said long ago, what are the questions?
    8. +2
      16 November 2019 08: 18
      The United States demanded that Japan quadruple the cost of maintaining the US military contingent in the country.


      What can I say - Japan is an occupied country, so it is constantly subject to tribute.
      1. +1
        16 November 2019 08: 46
        Quote: cniza
        What can I say - Japan is an occupied country, so it is constantly taxed

        Hi soldier
        It's kind of cozy under the wing of the "big brother", but why should it be a gift, as the Yankees thought!
        Dad Trump needs good deals .... with "enemies" he does not succeed ah, they are sent somewhere far away! Will "allies" gut!
        1. +3
          16 November 2019 12: 44
          Greetings! hi he will stand them to the last drop - either blood or patience ...
    9. +2
      16 November 2019 08: 20
      The Americans are turning Japan into "Ukraine in the Far East" and setting it against Russia. It is no coincidence that the Japanese are already making territorial claims against Russia, although they have no right to do so. We are kind, we love everyone, and the Japanese sleep and see how to seize the territory of the Russian island. Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands. And those in Russia who say that we need to deal with "our own economy" and not repel the attacks of the Japanese are simply stupid or pour water on the Japanese mill. How will you, dear, deal with the economy if the Japanese seize Sakhalin and cut off your access to the Ocean? Well, do you have to turn on your brains sometimes?
      1. -2
        16 November 2019 08: 47
        Quote: 1536
        And those in Russia who say that we need to deal with "our own economy" and not repel the attacks of the Japanese are simply stupid or pour water on the Japanese mill.

        And what - a lot of these?

        I don't really follow what sounds are made by talking heads, so I would be grateful for a couple of media names. It is about this "not to reflect the attacks of the Japanese."

        Quote: 1536
        How will you, dear, be engaged in the economy if the Japanese capture Sakhalin and cut off your way out to the Ocean?

        Everything needs to be dealt with. And the economy, and people, and defense, and diplomacy. We do not do anything. No, money is being mastered - there are no questions. But things are still there. In all areas and areas.

        If we start with the latter, with diplomacy, then it would have been high time to go on the offensive and claim Japan the right to Hokkaido (who forgot - when the Japanese first visited Hokkaido as tourists, they were met by Ainu bearing Russian names, paying taxes to RI and to the same Orthodox). It’s clear that we do not need him. However, the discussion field will already be in the Japanese half - they will have to defend themselves, and not troll us with the Kuril Islands.

        The rest is no better than diplomacy.
        1. -3
          16 November 2019 08: 54
          "If we start with the latter, with diplomacy, then it would be high time from defense to go on the offensive and present to Japan the rights to Hokkaido (who forgot - when the Japanese first visited Hokkaido as tourists, they were greeted by the Ainu bearing Russian names, paying taxes to the Republic of Ingushetia and besides, Orthodox). It is clear that we do not need it. However, the field of discussion will already be in the Japanese half - they will have to defend themselves, and not troll us with the Kuriles. "
          You would be Sergey Lavrov's deputy. Won't you come? There would be no price. Practice here for now. "Diplomat"....
          1. 0
            16 November 2019 09: 18
            Quote: Andrey Chistyakov
            It’s clear that we do not need him.

            It will be useful ...
            1. 0
              16 November 2019 12: 17
              Quote: Vasyan1971
              Quote: Andrey Chistyakov
              It’s clear that we do not need him.

              It will be useful ...

              Not my quote. Look at the quotes.
              1. 0
                16 November 2019 18: 04
                Quote: Andrey Chistyakov
                Not my quote. Look at the quotes.

                I know. I am in your support. Someone interrupted my plus sign ...
    10. +1
      16 November 2019 08: 42
      . US demands Japan to increase spending on the maintenance of the US army

      And it is right!!!
      Good deal, for Trump's daddy, in every way!
      1. 0
        16 November 2019 09: 17
        Quote: rocket757
        Good deal, for Trump's daddy, in every way!

        Not a deal yet. So far, only your hands are twisted ...
    11. +1
      16 November 2019 08: 49
      Americans, they’re doing everything right! satellites (slaves) must pay and obey!
    12. -1
      16 November 2019 08: 56
      It is logical that the United States arrives - the occupier is also an occupier in JAPAN ... and the Japanese are fighting the language of the Kuril Islands only)))
    13. +1
      16 November 2019 09: 02
      Well, what do they want? Occupation forces must be kept by someone. The fact that it will be occupied by themselves is logical.
    14. +2
      16 November 2019 09: 14
      Four times? Require? Someone is surprised because he expected a different development of events?
      Security? As we did in the 90s: "You are not paying for protection, but for being allowed to breathe!"
    15. +1
      16 November 2019 09: 42
      fourfold increase the cost of maintaining the American military contingent in the country
      Why trifle? It was necessary to immediately demand an increase of 5-7 times, and also invoice for the spent two American atomic bombs.
    16. 0
      16 November 2019 10: 16
      Earlier, US President Donald Trump has repeatedly stated that the United States will no longer pay its own funds to ensure the security of allies.

      Anglo-Saxon "allies", pray to God that Trump does not pass for a second term.
      Otherwise, he will rip off all of you as "sticky", and force all NATO members
      pay not at 2%, but at 4%.
      What has been stated more than once. Yes
    17. 0
      16 November 2019 10: 43
      Did someone expect something else? In my opinion, the situation in Oyrop has shown everything for a long time.
    18. 0
      16 November 2019 11: 12
      Americans do not forgive debts. Tired of feeding them parasites. And therefore, any next president will not change this policy.
      1. 0
        16 November 2019 12: 52
        Here, many commentators do not even understand that Japan, South Korea and China, rose only because they opened the American market, trained specialists, gave technology and production.
    19. 0
      16 November 2019 12: 20
      Not only does the client "dance" the "woman of easy virtue" also demands money from her.
    20. 0
      16 November 2019 14: 32
      The Americans, for their part, are right, and let the Japanese think whether they need it or not.
    21. 0
      16 November 2019 16: 16
      Woe to the vanquished, but Japan, as a vassal, must fork out; it does not have its own policy.
    22. +5
      16 November 2019 17: 36
      Japan has a new Emperor .. and therefore must pay a new one)
    23. 0
      16 November 2019 17: 49
      On the one hand, it seems like yes, the US occupiers are demanding an increase in their maintenance costs. On the other hand, this is precisely what explains the Japanese and Korean "economic miracles". Miracles, in fact, do not happen. The absence of the need to spend large funds on the defense industry, the ability to put them into the consumer goods economy - this is the explanation for the significant economic growth of these countries. The United States assumed the function of guards for these states, and at its own expense. Why did the States need it? For demonstrative propaganda - see, they say, how "democratic" countries, our friends, are developing successfully! But the times of the Cold War have passed, the need for such propaganda has disappeared, and for many years the United States was forced to drag on these obligations, which they had assumed long ago and voluntarily. Now they are exhausted, they are beginning to demand that their "allies" pay their bills. And they were not used to it, and the situation was fine with them.
      Most likely, it will end with the complete collapse of the existing system of US hegemony. But one should not delude oneself here - without active "help" the system will collapse for a very long time, at the same time burying the most interesting initiatives in building a new world order.
    24. 0
      16 November 2019 18: 54
      US looks at its allies like a rider on a horse
      1. 0
        16 November 2019 20: 18
        Like a cattle breeder who constantly shears his cattle and then lets them go into the meat, but the cattle are happy in the stable and warm and satisfying.
    25. 0
      17 November 2019 16: 36
      Just a four-fold increase in the cost of maintaining Americans? Isn’t it better to immediately 8 times? Or in 12? why trifle.
    26. +1
      17 November 2019 21: 15
      Occupants demand from the occupied to increase the cost of maintaining the occupying continent.
      Japas build a little virgin from themselves, and increase them - atoputin will fall!
    27. 0
      18 November 2019 05: 20
      Quote: abc_alex
      Quote: maden.usmanow
      If you deny the colossal Soviet support for the DPRK in the Korean War, I have nothing to talk about with you.

      Do not deny. But the support of Koreans by any country in the world does not mean an invasion of this country. The USSR did not fight on the side of the northerners. Soviet regular units were not part of the north. There was no occupation of Korea, except for the state. Therefore, to free Korea was her from whom. Only from the Koreans themselves.

      Quote: maden.usmanow
      No one was sent, and Kim Il Sung was not captain of the Red Army.

      Do not twist the tail and do not bounce. How many divisions? Or did the USA liberate Korea from two dozen Soviet instructor pilots? Along the way, destroying everything in the north and killing hundreds of thousands of Koreans?
      And the fact that Kim served in the Red Army and the SA, well, well, in the Republic of Ingushetia and the USSR there was at least a 300th Korean diaspora.
      By the way, I remember one British officer who was so robust in the Middle East. Did this mean inexorableness to free BV?

      Quote: maden.usmanow
      the union can intervene, supply weapons, its fighters, its specialists, and others cannot.

      Now? Now the supply of weapons to conflict zones is prohibited, although everyone spits on this, of course. And yes, the supply of weapons is not a reason for a full-scale US invasion. The United States destroyed Korea in spite of the USSR and there was no liberation there at all. They killed Koreans, not Russians.

      Quote: maden.usmanow
      the capitalist regime does not say that.

      Do not persevere in delusions. A regime is a way of exercising power. Capitalism is a way of organizing production and a form of ownership. The capitalist and communist regime is a journalistic and liberoid g-post, outstanding author's illiteracy. Do not be like. No communist regimes have ever existed anywhere. There is no such thing in any science and never has been. Read what a political regime is and do not disgrace. Your brains were talking for you like newspaper slag, now you have North Koreans who are already occupiers and you need to free Korea from them.

      Plus !!! But "wound up" -type carefully.

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