'We really don't look for rivalry or conflict': Japan minister on expanding army power | World News

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Japan will not use its expanding army power to threaten other nations, its defence minister stated on Saturday, whilst affirming its goal to prioritise diplomatic initiatives and dialogue to avert misunderstandings.

Japan's Minister of Protection, Hamada Yasukazu, speaks at a plenary session for the duration of the twentieth IISS Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore.(Reuters)

"We do not look for rivalry or conflict," Yasukazu Hamada stated in a speech at the Shangri-La Dialogue, a protection convention in Singapore with 600 delegates from forty nine nations.

Japanese aggression just before and for the duration of World War Two is nonetheless a trigger of rigidity in relations with some nations, specifically South Korea and China.

The United States in 1947 imposed a structure on Japan that renounces war but in latest many years governments have been boosting defence capacities and in December, Japan unveiled its greatest army develop-up because the war.

Hamada stated Japan did not goal to create army electrical power to pose a danger to other people.

The defence ministry would go after diplomatic initiatives very first, he stated.

"As a country that typically need peace, we goal to enrich our individual and initial deterrent abilities and market the resolution to variations in curiosity and views by dialogue," he stated.

Underneath a 5-12 months defence, which will double defence shelling out, Japan will obtain lengthier-array missiles that it hopes will prevent China from resorting to drive in East Asia.

Primary Minister Fumio Kishida's federal government concerns that Russia's assault on Ukraine could embolden China to assault neighbouring Taiwan.

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