What path is Japan taking with its rapid, right-leaning push toward militarization?

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  Japan's faster tracking is military build-up.

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  The government has approved a supplementary budget for fiscal 2025,

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  accelerating its defense spending to 2 percent of GDP, two years ahead of schedule.

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  Local reports say the defense ministry will receive about 5.4 billion U.S.

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  dollars in extra funding, partly for purchasing new destroyers, submarines and missile systems.

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  That brings Japan's total defense spending for fiscal year 2025 to more than 70 billion U.S.

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  dollars.

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