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Podcast: BFBS Sitrep
Episode: EXTRA – Japan’s big military ambitions
Description: Japan is one of the world’s third biggest economic power, but until now its military power has come nowhere close to matching that.That’s changing though, with a 5-year defence-spending spree to include new counter-strike capabilities which will enable Japan to fire on enemy land for the first time since World War Two.Kate Gerbeau talks to the author of ‘Japan as a Global Military Power’, Dr Chris Hughes, about how capable Japan’s forces already are, what the extra spending will add, and why Britain is key to Tokyo’s plan for greater mili...