Japan boosts defense budget 7.61% for 1981
December 29, 1980
Tokyo
Japan revised its spending on defense for next year, taking into consideration its relations with Washington, according to government sources. The government decided to spend a total of $11.5 billion on defense in fiscal 1981. This is 7.61 percent more than the current financial year and 1.01 percent higher than a provisional defense spending figure set by the Finance Ministry last week. But the 7.61 percent increase is still less than the Defense Agency's original request of a 9.7 percent increase. The United States, which has a security treaty with Japan, had demanded the 9.7 percent increase.