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![Japan’s Defense Ministry Requests Largest Ever Budget for Fiscal Year 2024 Japan’s Defense Ministry Requests Largest Ever Budget for Fiscal Year 2024](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2023-08-31-140239.jpg)
Japan’s Defense Ministry Requests Largest Ever Budget for Fiscal Year 2024
By Takahashi Kosuke
Japan's defense build-up, including pursuit of a counter-strike capability, continues to require record-setting funds.
![Japan Deploys PAC3 Interceptor System for North Korea Spy Satellite Launch Japan Deploys PAC3 Interceptor System for North Korea Spy Satellite Launch](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2023-04-26-153718.jpeg)
Japan Deploys PAC3 Interceptor System for North Korea Spy Satellite Launch
By Takahashi Kosuke
The deployment of additional missile defense systems is causing mixed reactions from Okinawans.
![North Korean Missile Overflight Drives Home Japan’s Need to Strengthen Missile Defense North Korean Missile Overflight Drives Home Japan’s Need to Strengthen Missile Defense](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat-2020-09-25-15.jpg)
North Korean Missile Overflight Drives Home Japan’s Need to Strengthen Missile Defense
By Liang Tuang Nah
With Pyongyang’s most recent missile launch over Japan, beefing up Japanese missile defense becomes a politically and economically justifiable imperative.
![Japan’s North Korea Missile Woes Japan’s North Korea Missile Woes](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat-2020-09-25-15.jpg)
Japan’s North Korea Missile Woes
By Thisanka Siripala
Japan is on high alert after a frenzied series of North Korean ballistic missile tests.
![Is Japan’s Ballistic Missile Defense Too Integrated With the US? Is Japan’s Ballistic Missile Defense Too Integrated With the US?](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat-c785_uminomamorii-jisu_tp_v.jpg)
Is Japan’s Ballistic Missile Defense Too Integrated With the US?
By Yuki Watai
Japan runs the risk of entrapment, but seems to accept that fate willingly.
![With North Korea Thaw, Japan Downgrades Missile Alert Level With North Korea Thaw, Japan Downgrades Missile Alert Level](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat-683px-us_navy_101029-n-xxxxx-004_an_sm-3_block_1a_missile_is_launched_from_the_japan_maritime_self-defense_force_destroyer_js_kirishima_dd_174_succe.jpg)
With North Korea Thaw, Japan Downgrades Missile Alert Level
By Mina Pollmann
The announcement contrasts with long-term moves to increase Japan's missile defense capabilities.
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