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Japan’s record US$782 billion budget to boost military firepower, tame inflation​

The budget comes as the market worries about Prime Minister Takaichi’s big spending policies adding to Japan’s public debt

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The Japanese government on Friday approved a record budget for the coming financial year to pay for everything from bigger defence spending to ballooning social security costs as inflation persists.

The 122.3 trillion yen (US$782 billion) budget for the financial year from April 2026 will include some 9 trillion yen for defence spending, as Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi aims to accelerate Tokyo’s sweeping upgrade of its military in the face of worsening relations with China.

The defence ministry said in a briefing document that “Japan faces the most severe and complex security environment since the end of the war”, stressing the need to “fundamentally strengthen” its defence capabilities.

At the core of its request is 100 billion yen for the so-called Shield coastal defence system, which would marshal drones to block any invasion by foreign troops.

Japan is hoping that Shield – Synchronised, Hybrid, Integrated and Enhanced Littoral Defence – will be completed by March 2028, with no details yet on which part of Japan’s coastline it will be linked to.

The 122 trillion yen figure compares with the 115 trillion yen sought for the current financial year to March, which was also a record.

The expanding budget comes as the market worries about Takaichi’s big spending policies adding to Japan’s public debt.

Japan already has the biggest ratio of debt to gross domestic product among major economies, projected to reach 232.7 per cent this year, according to the International Monetary Fund.

Earlier this month, parliament approved a massive extra budget to pay for a 21.3 trillion yen stimulus announced a month earlier.

The market has reacted by driving down the value of the yen while the benchmark yield rose for Japanese government bonds.

Some observers have drawn comparisons to the UK’s 2022 bond market turmoil under then-prime minister Liz Truss.

Takaichi has advocated big government spending to spur economic growth.

“What Japan needs right now is not the undermining of our strength as a nation through excessive austerity fiscal policies, but rather the bolstering of our national strength through proactive fiscal policies,” she told a press conference last week.

In an interview on Tuesday with the influential Nikkei business daily, Takaichi stressed her commitment to Tokyo’s financial health, rejecting any “irresponsible bond issuance or tax cuts”.

The current size of the budget is unlikely to shock the bond market, Takahide Kiuchi, executive economist at Nomura Research Institute, wrote in a note ahead of Friday.

But an increase to around 125 trillion yen or more, he said, would cause the “turmoil in the bond market, already in crisis mode, to deepen further”.

“Financial markets are likely on high alert for a similar occurrence. Should the fall of the yen and bond prices further accelerate due to the size of the budget, it would increase worries about adverse effects on the economy and people’s lives.”

A weaker yen raises prices of imports for resource-poor Japan, which relies heavily on foreign food, energy and raw materials to power its economy.

Takaichi came to power in October with a pledge to fight inflation after anger over rising prices.

Another challenge facing the country is its ageing population, caused by chronically low birth rates and a cautious approach to immigration.

The draft budget needs to be approved by parliament.



"JUST SHUT YOUR MOUTHS AND INVEST EVERYTHING IN ME!" - SANAE TAKAICHI
It doesn't really matter. Like the US, Japan simply doesn't have the industrial prowess to compete with China. Whatever they can build, China can build ten times more.
 

GulfLander

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A Lufthansa plane en route from Munich to Beijing made an emergency landing at Almaty International Airport after a passenger suddenly fell ill and died on board.

The incident occurred Friday morning on flight LH 0722. Kazakhstan’s Aviation Administration said the passenger lost consciousness mid-flight, prompting the crew to divert to Almaty. Medical teams and ambulances were dispatched immediately, but the passenger was pronounced dead upon arrival, News.Az reports, citing foreign media.

The plane was refueled and continued to Beijing at 07:56 a.m. Transport police have launched a criminal investigation, with preliminary findings indicating the cause of death was acute heart failure. The deceased passenger was a foreign national.

Authorities are continuing their investigation into the incident.
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Ringsword

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It will be funny if US fail to deliver the battleship but China build one to try to keep up.
I guarantee you ,somwhere in the PLAN -some admiral wants this Trump class battlewagon to be built in China speed time just to give Trump the "finger"-I don't believe SK nor Japan can do it(classified armaments and all transfer)
 

henrik

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It would be poetic if the Trump Class Battleship ends up being built in South Korea while MAGA is seething over the back stabbing of reviving US industries. Rather doubtful they will meet the $10 to $15 billion dollar price tag. I find it more likely the price tag will over run the budget by triple digit percentages.

This is just a move to trick China into building such a wasteful project.
 

AssassinsMace

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Isn't it interesting that you have Bari Weiss of the Democratic left and Ben Shapiro of the Republican right in positions of influence but they both hold Israel first before all. Bari Weiss use to define herself as a Democrat. Not so easily now because of the criticism she’s received on the left much like what Ben Shapiro has been experiencing with the right today. Both are seemingly questioned and hated within “their own”. Is it because they can't hide their loyalty to Israel and to no one else? Some might say this is just typical when you find any group that are diversely of the left and the right. But what if this was the strategy? What you have is someone on both sides defining the agendas in order to have control to make sure they converge to protect certain interests first.

How about religion? Look at Judeo-Christianity. I’ve heard of the term but never thought about it much because I’m not Christian until it was brought up in the Charlie Kirk assassination. Supposedly one of the conspiracy theories behind it was apparently Kirk was questioning it. Questioning it? Is that a thing one can do? I thought it was just religious old stuff written in the Bible from centuries ago. Relatively it’s a recent thing where it was something like a public relations tool started to promote commonality and understanding between Jews and Christians. Why are right-wingers questioning it? Because they think it’s about serving only Jewish and Israeli interests and certainly not something mutual. Kirk being a major influencer in young Republican politics questioning Judeo-Christian principles certainly would be a danger for Israel and hence why the conspiracy Jews were behind the assassination.

Now look at this video.


This says Jews make up one-forth of the non-Asian Buddhist population in the West. Now I wouldn’t say one-fourth is large but it’s interesting that a lot of Jews are in positions of influence. I believe there’s one Jewish woman I’ve heard about is now supposedly in a position where usually a woman would not be normally allowed to hold in traditional Buddhism. Don’t you love how the West changes someone else’s religion as they see fit? Then you have those that are Tibetan scholars mixing in Western anti-China politics like actress Uma Thurman’s father does. The Dalai Lama would probably be sitting in Tibet today if he didn’t listen to these very Westerners… that’s if it was true that he was not seeking to separate Tibet from China.

Is there an attempt to coax Buddhism like what happened with Christianity? Look at how they’re claiming Judaism is similar to Buddhism now. Is that the beginnings of rumblings to claim Buddhism should be protective of Judaism?

Here’s something I’ve heard that’s very important among Jews is where they want the ending of the use of the Buddhist “swastika” symbol that Hitler co-opted... That’s a big ask and that’s why they haven’t demanded it fully publicly yet. They know there’s going to be a huge backlash if they push it. But just as much as everywhere that they have influence now, they’ve successfully made everyone see protecting the Jews and Israel as priority number one.

Someone here posts about how oddly someone who is Jewish being on the board of some Asian community organization. Is that so he can influence the direction of the organization so it doesn’t stray into “sensitive” situations? Is that so he can monitor and report to some handler of what this organization is up to? It does seem intentional to insert people everywhere in order to gain and use their influence not for mutual benefit but to serve only certain interests.

If anyone has noticed but today you’re seeing whatever that is blamed on the Jews, someone Jewish is blaming it on the Chinese. Look at how Laura Loomer soon after tried to claim China had something to do the Charlie Kirk assassination. Or when playing victim when the Covid pandemic was happening, somehow the New York Times said Jews were being blamed for it. They tried to make it the usual and unabated antisemitism Jews were suffering over the Asians that were being attacked that Westerners were holding responsible for it.

It's not surprising that Israel is defacto labelling China as their enemy. They'd rather make enemies just so they can claim to be a victim than rather have a people feel not guilty for doing nothing to them in history. Why do they seem to have an unholy alliance with the Jews-will-not-replace-us Republicans who basically are at the heart antisemitism in the world? It's because they know they can get Republicans to do their dirty work by exploiting their hate-filled nature for everything else to everyone else. They can't do that with the Chinese.

Some will claim that Jews are not white, not Western. Well given the history of Judeo-Christian thought, the West today has been shaped by that intertwining. How the Jews operate is the exact same way how the West operates. Look at how the Democrats view of the world is what the Republicans use as an excuse to treat the world. It's a joke every time you hear Republicans cry about human rights but they use it as an excuse to use their military against countries that they don't like. That's what called working in concert. And we know human rights criticism is only against countries that aren't Western or choose not to blindly obey the West not because they they've been acting badly.

The Western victim culture follows exactly how Jews are seen as victims versus everyone else as victims. Would it be surprising to some day hear Israel say out loud that what Japan did during WWII and especially to the Chinese wasn't as bad as how China portrays it? Even though Japan attacked the US in WWII, a lot China haters in the US will defend what Japan did to China as okay. If you ever had a conversation with someone who's Jewish over WWII, they will tell you that by default. Don't say Chinese were in any way treated as badly during WWII as Jews were even with the indiscriminate execution of women and children or Japanese medical experiments that some say were worse than the ones performed on the Jews. One experiment had no medical purpose. The Japanese put a Chinese mother and her baby in a room where the floor could be heated to high deathly temperatures. The Japanese wanted to know how long it would take for the mother to throw her baby on the floor to stand on to save herself. Look at how the West today just because China doesn't need them economically is trying to rally the world to hate China. Having the world thinking what the Japanese did to the Chinese was not serious would be a measure of their success in their anti-China campaign. That's the price Chinese must pay for not seeing the West as their masters.
 

jiajia99

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This is just a move to trick China into building such a wasteful project.
Who is dumb enough to actually carry this stupid project out. Just because Trump is descending into terminal stage denial/senility doesn’t mean anyone else in leadership of other nations is quite that bad (unless it’s Israel, UK and Japan, in which then you might have a point)



Isn't it interesting that you have Bari Weiss of the Democratic left and Ben Shapiro of the Republican right in positions of influence but they both hold Israel first before all. Bari Weiss use to define herself as a Democrat. Not so easily now because of the criticism she’s received on the left much like what Ben Shapiro has been experiencing with the right today. Both are seemingly questioned and hated within “their own”. Is it because they can't hide their loyalty to Israel and to no one else? Some might say this is just typical when you find any group that are diversely of the left and the right. But what if this was the strategy? What you have is someone on both sides defining the agendas in order to have control to make sure they converge to protect certain interests first.

How about religion? Look at Judeo-Christianity. I’ve heard of the term but never thought about it much because I’m not Christian until it was brought up in the Charlie Kirk assassination. Supposedly one of the conspiracy theories behind it was apparently Kirk was questioning it. Questioning it? Is that a thing one can do? I thought it was just religious old stuff written in the Bible from centuries ago. Relatively it’s a recent thing where it was something like a public relations tool started to promote commonality and understanding between Jews and Christians. Why are right-wingers questioning it? Because they think it’s about serving only Jewish and Israeli interests and certainly not something mutual. Kirk being a major influencer in young Republican politics questioning Judeo-Christian principles certainly would be a danger for Israel and hence why the conspiracy Jews were behind the assassination.

Now look at this video.


This says Jews make up one-forth of the non-Asian Buddhist population in the West. Now I wouldn’t say one-fourth is large but it’s interesting that a lot of Jews are in positions of influence. I believe there’s one Jewish woman I’ve heard about is now supposedly in a position where usually a woman would not be normally allowed to hold in traditional Buddhism. Don’t you love how the West changes someone else’s religion as they see fit? Then you have those that are Tibetan scholars mixing in Western anti-China politics like actress Uma Thurman’s father does. The Dalai Lama would probably be sitting in Tibet today if he didn’t listen to these very Westerners… that’s if it was true that he was not seeking to separate Tibet from China.

Is there an attempt to coax Buddhism like what happened with Christianity? Look at how they’re claiming Judaism is similar to Buddhism now. Is that the beginnings of rumblings to claim Buddhism should be protective of Judaism?

Here’s something I’ve heard that’s very important among Jews is where they want the ending of the use of the Buddhist “swastika” symbol that Hitler co-opted... That’s a big ask and that’s why they haven’t demanded it fully publicly yet. They know there’s going to be a huge backlash if they push it. But just as much as everywhere that they have influence now, they’ve successfully made everyone see protecting the Jews and Israel as priority number one.

Someone here posts about how oddly someone who is Jewish being on the board of some Asian community organization. Is that so he can influence the direction of the organization so it doesn’t stray into “sensitive” situations? Is that so he can monitor and report to some handler of what this organization is up to? It does seem intentional to insert people everywhere in order to gain and use their influence not for mutual benefit but to serve only certain interests.

If anyone has noticed but today you’re seeing whatever that is blamed on the Jews, someone Jewish is blaming it on the Chinese. Look at how Laura Loomer soon after tried to claim China had something to do the Charlie Kirk assassination. Or when playing victim when the Covid pandemic was happening, somehow the New York Times said Jews were being blamed for it. They tried to make it the usual and unabated antisemitism Jews were suffering over the Asians that were being attacked that Westerners were holding responsible for it.

It's not surprising that Israel is defacto labelling China as their enemy. They'd rather make enemies just so they can claim to be a victim than rather have a people feel not guilty for doing nothing to them in history. Why do they seem to have an unholy alliance with the Jews-will-not-replace-us Republicans who basically are at the heart antisemitism in the world? It's because they know they can get Republicans to do their dirty work by exploiting their hate-filled nature for everything else to everyone else. They can't do that with the Chinese.

Some will claim that Jews are not white, not Western. Well given the history of Judeo-Christian thought, the West today has been shaped by that intertwining. How the Jews operate is the exact same way how the West operates. Look at how the Democrats view of the world is what the Republicans use as an excuse to treat the world. It's a joke every time you hear Republicans cry about human rights but they use it as an excuse to use their military against countries that they don't like. That's what called working in concert. And we know human rights criticism is only against countries that aren't Western or choose not to blindly obey the West not because they they've been acting badly.

The Western victim culture follows exactly how Jews are seen as victims versus everyone else as victims. Would it be surprising to some day hear Israel say out loud that what Japan did during WWII and especially to the Chinese wasn't as bad as how China portrays it? Even though Japan attacked the US in WWII, a lot China haters in the US will defend what Japan did to China as okay. If you ever had a conversation with someone who's Jewish over WWII, they will tell you that by default. Don't say Chinese were in any way treated as badly during WWII as Jews were even with the indiscriminate execution of women and children or Japanese medical experiments that some say were worse than the ones performed on the Jews. One experiment had no medical purpose. The Japanese put a Chinese mother and her baby in a room where the floor could be heated to high deathly temperatures. The Japanese wanted to know how long it would take for the mother to throw her baby on the floor to stand on to save herself. Look at how the West today just because China doesn't need them economically is trying to rally the world to hate China. Having the world thinking what the Japanese did to the Chinese was not serious would be a measure of their success in their anti-China campaign. That's the price Chinese must pay for not seeing the West as their masters.
Then these sorry bastards had better be very careful, especially with the woman freak of a leader in charge. On thing that those nations above have in common is their near brain dead levels of stupidity in poking someone that can pay those sins back many times over and mistaking restraint for weakness. In times past, atrocities in revenge tends to be beyond comprehension and if they don’t stop poking, it’s only takes one mistake for their worst nightmares to come true. I long for the day that there goddamn shrine gets blown up, I hope that this finally happens in a manner that involves the USA backstabbing them for maximum emotional damage. The stories my father and mother tells me really does make me long for such a day
 
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