One of the main reasons for the decline in orders for the Japanese military-industrial complex was the growth in imports of weapons from the United States.

The Ministry of Defense of Japan reacts with alarm to the emerging statistics in the field of production armory products. Thus, in recent years, Japan has recorded a massive transition of companies working in the military-industrial complex to the civilian industry. The Ministry of Defense of the country says that this could lead to the inability of the Japanese army to fight in the event of an emergency.

Japanese Defense Minister Yasukazu Hamada:

Our defense industry directly reflects the country's defense capability. There are problems in the industry today.

Many companies have decided to withdraw from the military-industrial market due, allegedly, to the limited military budget of Japan and the increase in weapons imports from other countries. Not the last role is played by the rise in energy prices.

In Japan, in connection with this problem, a special expert group has been created, headed by former Deputy Foreign Minister Kenichiro Sasae. The group called for "strengthening the military-industrial sector."

At the moment, as they say in Japan, the military-industrial complex market in the country is estimated at about $20,5 billion. At the same time, more than 8000 Japanese companies, including those representing small businesses, were employed in the shipbuilding industry alone. Many of them left the military-industrial complex due to the fact that the Japanese government "rarely gives orders."

The government justifies its decisions by the fact that prices have recently jumped, including for technology. And these prices are announced by the companies themselves. And with the current military budget of Japan, the Ministry of Defense, as stated, “will not pull” new spending.

An example is the order for an early warning aircraft (AWACS) E-2C. Initially, under the contract, it cost 9,9 billion yen, and then, when over time they decided to bring it to the E-2D version, the cost increased to 26 billion yen. The fact that the E-2C and E-2D are not exactly the same thing is not commented on by the Japanese Ministry of Defense.

One of the main reasons for the decline in orders for the Japanese military-industrial complex was the growth in arms imports from the United States. If before 2014 the volume of Japanese imports of American weapons was less than 200 billion yen (up to 1,5 billion dollars), then by 2019 they exceeded 700 billion yen. Today they are approaching a trillion. That is, the money goes to the US budget, which forces many Japanese companies from the military industry to go to the civilian market.

Comments

[Victor_B]

You just need to think about Japan's goal setting.
What do you need?
Develop your military-industrial complex or quickly rearm and raise the military-industrial complex along the way.
China is making rapid progress.
And the Chinese are so eager to demonstrate their "love" for Japan ...
They can't even eat!

[Aerodrome]

One of the main reasons for the decline in orders for the Japanese military-industrial complex was the growth in imports of weapons from the United States.

are these our problems?

[iouris]

Quote: Victor_B

You just need to think about Japan's goal setting.

Are you a Japanese goal-setter? Well think...

[tralflot1832]

The United States knows how to strangle the military-industrial complex of partners, one story with the F 35 is worth something. Money should go to the American military-industrial complex in a continuous, unstoppable stream.
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[hagen]

Quote: tralflot1832

The United States knows how to strangle the military-industrial complex of partners

Another government betrayed the interests of its country to please the hegemon.

[tralflot1832]

And after WW2, were there independent governments in the zone of US interests? Only Fidel Castro, and even then they are for the fact that the US does not really need Cuba.

[Alex777]

Quote: tralflot1832

The United States doesn't really need a Cuba.

Caribbean crisis States stopped. And set a precedent.
And Kennedy, who gave guarantees to Cuba, is known to have finished.

[ARIONkrsk]

Quote: Hagen

Quote: tralflot1832

The United States knows how to strangle the military-industrial complex of partners

Another government betrayed the interests of its country to please the hegemon.

We also have enough traitors, Nabiullina, Siluanov, their senior Kudrin and the rest ... while someone is trying to do and develop something in the country, these do not give money and cheap long loans to the real sector of the economy-production and help financial speculators and the oligarchy to withdraw money and gold abroad in the form of permission to leave the proceeds and sell all the gold there.

[tralflot1832]

Nowhere does it say in which countries they leave foreign exchange earnings. And it’s generally cool with gold. Gold is not 999,9, but slightly lower. So this is an artel selling to support pants. Do we need gold now? Especially look at what the British are doing with the price of gold.

[ARIONkrsk]

Quote: tralflot1832

Nowhere does it say in which countries they leave foreign exchange earnings. And it’s generally cool with gold. Gold is not 999,9, but slightly lower. So this is an artel selling to support pants. Do we need gold now? Especially look at what the British are doing with the price of gold.

In the NWO, money must be taken from the exporters of resources, and they were allowed not to import the proceeds so that the currency does not strengthen, because. imports have fallen and our trade balance is now positive. Gold, on the recommendation of the IMF, has not been purchased by our Central Bank since 20, they would have kept more reserves in it, they would not have arrested so many. The gold miners themselves ask the Central Bank to buy gold for rubles, but the Central Bank ignores it.

[tralflot1832]

Take an interest in export duties and how our oil is traded. $, €, £ now we have toxins. Mazepin's conversation with Putin will help you. It clearly says, a complete ass with currency. In addition to the yuan and rupees.

[hagen]

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We also have enough traitors, Nabiullina, Siluanov,

Have we stopped the financial system? Stopped paying pensions, wages? I don’t think it’s worth climbing into the jungle, in which "neither ear nor snout." Your comments on the above will be relevant only if you use your mind to pull some Zanzibar out of the crisis. In the meantime, we can only look from the outside in the hope that Putin (or whoever will be instead) understands who he keeps in these positions.

[ARIONkrsk]

Quote: Hagen

Quote from ARIONkrsk

We also have enough traitors, Nabiullina, Siluanov,

Have we stopped the financial system? Stopped paying pensions, wages? I don’t think it’s worth climbing into the jungle, in which "neither ear nor snout." Your comments on the above will be relevant only if you use your mind to pull some Zanzibar out of the crisis. In the meantime, we can only look from the outside in the hope that Putin (or whoever will be instead) understands who he keeps in these positions.

Before writing about these pests in the vein that they normally work out, it’s worth reading a little or listening to people who understand the economy and see the damage from their activities, who strictly comply with all the recommendations of the IMF and the World Bank, which clearly prohibit making the ruble an investment currency, holding the key rate at a high level, which does not allow issuing cheap and long loans to businesses for specific projects and encouraging Western hedge funds that speculate and withdraw billions from the country on the stock exchange. There was and is plenty of money in the country, and there were even hundreds of lard, well, not to fulfill the social. obligations if pensions are small, the minimum wage is low, the salaries of state employees are not so high, and doctors and teachers are not paid so much.

[hagen]

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it is worth reading a little or listening to people who understand economics

Give a list of at least five who would be worth listening to with criticism, at least Nabiullina. Just start the list with those who at least brought the collective farm out of debt into profit. Who successfully commanded a normal enterprise and confirmed his theories with real practice. It may be that they are closer, he steered the bank, so much so that he does not bankrupt it. These are the ones you can listen to or read. And the ever-memorable Katasonov or the same Glazyev, but they wrote a lot, advised a lot, but I don’t even know a shoe store that they would head and enrich. As the sources of Marxism-Leninism said, practice is the criterion of truth. So come on, I'm all attention.

[ARIONkrsk]

Quote: Hagen

Quote from ARIONkrsk

it is worth reading a little or listening to people who understand economics

Give a list of at least five who would be worth listening to with criticism, at least Nabiullina. Just start the list with those who at least brought the collective farm out of debt into profit. Who successfully commanded a normal enterprise and confirmed his theories with real practice. It may be that they are closer, he steered the bank, so much so that he does not bankrupt it. These are the ones you can listen to or read. And the ever-memorable Katasonov or the same Glazyev, but they wrote a lot, advised a lot, but I don’t even know a shoe store that they would head and enrich. As the sources of Marxism-Leninism said, practice is the criterion of truth. So come on, I'm all attention.

I won’t advertise names and channels, but what I read according to forecasts always comes true and reflects the real picture, but Glazyev is an intelligent man and there are results at the post of the EAEU and he says, in principle, everything is correct. Oh, and good comrades, liberals N. and S., that under them the country is marking time in terms of GDP growth compared to the GDP of the world and other countries, but in fact we are rolling back, Japan has been marking time for many years and quietly gives up positions. Your respected Siluanov does not give benefits for the construction of refineries in the Far East, he promoted the privatization of the profitable SBP, the Zvezda ship repair plant, which also makes a profit and other profitable enterprises, now, with a budget surplus on windfall profits from hydrocarbons, he is driving the country into debt by selling government bonds at a huge discount and under floating interest on them. The person is clearly deliberately harming the country, and you continue to drown for the liberals and their policy may be accepted and called

[hagen]

Quote from ARIONkrsk

Your dear Siluanov does not give benefits for the construction of refineries in the Far East

He is not mine, I do not command him. If GDP finds reasons, it will eliminate it. So far, apparently not found.

Quote from ARIONkrsk

Glazyev is an intelligent man

Yes, intelligent, professor, expert, author of numerous books and articles, academician, etc. But where are his ideas somehow put into practice in a practical enterprise? We have entire forums of such economists gathering for large fees, but there is no sense. None of them is in a hurry to head a candle factory, at least. Hence the conclusion: there are many talkers, there is no one to work. So we have to endure Siluanov, they are afraid to invite Glazyev. Obviously, it does not inspire confidence in success. Europe, too, is full of the leaders of "banking production." She herself climbed into ...., and which she cannot get out, and she is ashamed. And Nabiullina, even if not an academician, but from 2014 to this day, the bank has been operating, the system is alive and, albeit slowly, is progressing. And this is with sanctions that no country has ever experienced. Do you like to read Glazyev? To your health... I'm not an economist, I won't give stupid advice to Putin where to raise or drop the rate. I chose him. So let him deal with financiers and economists. And even if you are a hundred times more correct than GDP (I see you think so), you still know the price of your words. You won't change anything. Should I be worried? And I do not drown for the liberals. They are not my family. But you don’t have any arguments either, just emotions and scientific phrases from Internet articles, and a ride to the interlocutor to stick a label of some kind. And this always shows a not very high general level of ability to understand complex things. Clearly you are not a progressive economist. Are you trying to assert yourself?

[Fangaro]

The United States wants the whole world to buy all weapons only from them.

[Mavrikiy]

One of the main reasons for the decline in orders for the Japanese military-industrial complex was the growth in imports of weapons from the United States.

And it pleases. US technology in the hands of the Japanese is less effective than the national, Japanese.

[rotmistr60]

Many of them left the military-industrial complex due to the fact that the Japanese government "rarely gives orders."

Conclusion: if you want to help your military-industrial complex, urgently transfer the country to a military footing, i.e. complete militarization. But then another problem arises - money is needed and huge money, and for the purchase of imported weapons, just a lot. Here, choose.

[Doccor18]

Quote: rotmistr60

Here you choose

What is there to choose? There is no choice. The country has been under occupation since 45. You can only do what the occupiers allow...
On the other hand, Japan has always been able to surprise with its rapid jumps. Therefore, there is no need to relax. At one time, even the weak Japanese industry managed to give out surprises like Zero and Yamato, and now its capabilities are much higher ...

[evgen1221]

I was surprised while there were loans and ready-made ships from Europe and other weapons, and then I was surprised with yamats while there were gratuitous raw materials, then I was surprised while using US semiconductor licenses they looked through their fingers at the Japanese, how they pressed and deflated electronic consumer goods from Japan. Now, in addition to a set of loans in the states above the roof, we are bringing them surprises, no one will give them resources for free. They can only surprise if the amers are turned out, but this is fantastic.

[Doccor18]

Quote: evgen1221

Now, in addition to a set of loans in the states above the roof, we carry them to surprise ..

Everyone has a lot of problems now, so Japan is not unique in this regard. The debt (more than 500% of GDP) is mostly internal, so that Japan actually "owes itself." And no matter what, to this day, the Japanese industry is confidently among the top three world leaders in shipbuilding, the production of cars and industrial robots. Its scientific and educational potential is enormous. Therefore, I would just be careful not to discount this eastern neighbor. The enemy is serious and ambiguous. In general, it is difficult to predict what they can "throw out" if the Democrats let go of the noose ...

[evgen1221]

And what will the neighbors allow them to throw out without looking back at the United States? But nothing. An island without its resources in general is all imports. In such conditions, without the cover of a godfather, they will only agree and bend with a Japanese bow. There is no trade or at inflated prices for them for their arrogance if they buck up and besides the fish they have everything - the fuel for the nuclear power plant is the first.

[Doccor18]

Quote: evgen1221

An island without its resources in general is all imports.

So, to be honest, except for China (which also imports decently), all the economies of the region are just global production centers with a minimum set of their resources. Yes, and in Europe with the seams with resources, but until recently it still played one of the key roles in the global economy. It's not about "how much you have", but "what you can reach" ... In fact, only the Russian Federation, the USA, Canada and Brazil can be self-sufficient, with reservations also India and China.
Nevertheless, Japan has one of the strongest combat and merchant fleets. If China can block the rebellious island in the future, then this is impossible with Japan. And the United States will certainly play this regional card to the end. The armies of R. Korea and Japan will be strengthened with the expectation of a future hot confrontation ...

[APASUS]

To all the allies of the United States, it only seems that there is equality in the military-industrial complex. In fact, they are also crushed there and can produce weapons in small quantities for themselves. For a large contract, you usually need to make a joint venture ........... with the Americans certainly