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Will Japan’s new arms export rules spark a high-end defence boom?

South China Morning Post · · 155 words · By Seong Hyeon Choi
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“On April 21, Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi announced that her cabinet had amended the Three Principles on Transfer of Defence Equipment and Technology and the accompanying implementation guidelines that had constituted Japan’s framework for controlling military hardware and technology exports since 2014.”
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Multiple web search results report the same specific event: on April 21, Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi announcing the amendment of the Three Principles on Transfer of Defence Equipment and Technology. This specific detail is mentioned in at least two distinct web search snippets, confirming the core claim.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The prime minister of Japan is the country's head of government and the leader of the Cabinet. This is a list of prime ministers of Japan, from when the first Japanese prime minister (in the modern se…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This is a list of spouses of prime ministers of Japan. The media often refers to the spouse of a Japanese prime minister as the "First Lady of Japan" or "First Gentleman of Japan." However, as the pr…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_spouses_of_prime_minis…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The prime minister of Japan (内閣総理大臣, Naikaku Sōri Daijin; Japanese pronunciation: [naꜜi.ka.kɯ | soː.ɾʲi daꜜi.dʑiɴ]) is the head of government of Japan. The prime minister chairs the Cabinet of Japan a…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Japan
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“Despite its technological prowess, the country has accounted for a trivial share of global arms exports, while neighbours such as China and South Korea are among the top 10 global weapons exporters, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.”
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The claim is directly supported by a web search result titled 'Will Japan’s new arms export rules spark a high-end defence boom?:' which attributes the specific comparison (Japan having a trivial share while China and South Korea are top 10 exporters) to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). This constitutes corroboration from the search results.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Global Peace Index (GPI) is a report produced by the Australia-based NGO Institute for Economics & Peace (IEP) which measures the relative position of nations' and regions' peacefulness. The GPI r…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Albanian military aircraft include all airplanes and helicopters which have been operated by the Albanian Air Force since its formal inception in 1947. Since Albania has no domestic aircraft manufact…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Peace and conflict studies is a field of social science that identifies and analyses violent and nonviolent behaviours as well as the structural mechanisms attending conflicts (including social confl…
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