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groundbreaking questions can be after life. we are sitting, saving the world, 42. the answer to almost everything. start september 10th on dw, the videos a show coming up today. bus stop, click admission from japan, top committed to your office pieces defense defense forces called protect your friends, and they need an upgrade to flight use. the web forms will display the tree upgrade the text, and the page is welcomed in the vast country with a tiny counts the community. we hear of what they think of the context historic visit the

the hi british manager. welcome to the the news aisha are glad you can join us. japan is all being itself liked it never has before . the defense industry has now lost for nearly 20 percent budgeted. increase this year to finance the acquisition of warships and long range crews. besides, if approved, it will be the 2nd straight of the new 5 year military build up plan that was approved in december last year. the request to increase the defense budget. as part of that plan, came a day off to japan, stopped uniformed officer general yoshi, the. you'll see the wound that the big selected state of the country's self defense forces had put its very sovereignty in jeopardy. in an interview with to the nick a. it shouldn't use paper, he said, and i quote, we cannot maintain japan security without cotton's capabilities. the domestic community is that the critical juncture on whether it can prevent unilateral

changes in the state as go by force and maintain an international order based on the rule of law. japan is on the front lines of this fight in the in the pacific. and he's thought wrong, so start as not through. yeah. has always been a threat to the island nation. and in recent years, under kim john, one of that credit has only increased a now nearly monthly danger comes from the numerous nissan launches from north korea. besides which land the many occasions in waters around japan, it is one of the reasons why the defense industry wants the funds to build 2 warships, which will have the reductive ability to intercept north korean nissan launches. and then there is the historical spread from china, both nations after the tone disputes as well. that's i've seen ships from both countries face all in recent years. the water ukraine has added

a new dimension to this thread in the form of the no limits partnership between china and russia. the movies of both nations have since last year conducted new, but as the joint patrols andrews in the seas around japan. and gentlemen offer more social security expert me to talk to little guy from japan's k or university professor heads and woke up it's printing timing assessment from general your feed, the the is the f gone, protect japan of the moment. why is that all? it's not secret enough to college posters, not enough. so when we're not enough and security trucks is enough to send the present, if a kid upset by himself, dr. based on the series of simulations, the now it is clear that the current safety principles posted is not enough. so the general notion of comment is very much in line is what 5 minutes because it upsets bucking enough december on. that is why to because the, the current post is not enough. we need to have

a bigger projects on the that's going to have what are the prior to area of the japan is looking to upgrade the as the in it's dave dave, the government is now focusing on the part and what is the quote come to take it, which is about acquiring the crews and me solves so the, because the for a long time, japan didn't have any type of so the, this is a new development. and this is very much based on the fact that to both work over here and china had been strengthening, improving their case would be reduced. yeah. besides, the deposit finally realizes that it needs to respond and how much of this a change in force posture and these new weapons that japan wants to acquire, are informed by the off to the effects of the ukraine wall of

the general public support for the idea of increasing defense budget, i think uh to some extent, todd meaningfulness defined for new grade. and also the rising tensions over time on. so there are various access behinds, increasing public support for, for, for bigger defense budget. but the department is, has been facing nissan from north korea for many years. so the, so not, this is a new governor position that we need to respond. so the, for my 6 foot part perspective, the government's decision to text and different spot. there was some home very late, i wouldn't say too late, but it's never too late for me to do if i should have done more much, much earlier. that's uh, that's my view. as you're talking about increasing public support for this increase

defense other than increased acquisitions from the s d f. yet having said that, the s t f is facing a problem when it comes to recruitment. for instance, not many people want to join the is to have to be sold, as is another case as well. except the that's how does the idea of the biggest problem is that the assistance forces are facing. because building new and more versus the buying more craft, i think is the easy part. but the recruiting people and also training that is a more difficult part. and so, so we can do because of a bigger difference, but we can buy more equipment. but so how we can do that is going to be, i think, the biggest challenge instead of transfer squared job, i do want to talk to about the japan security part of the united states because the general, your feeder and his interview set up in japan, needs to do more on its own when it comes to this alliance with the united states.

does japan not think that the us is a reliable ally? the in japan and really the test americans and the trust the last was denied of states. so the, we are generally confident about the credibility of the us security guarantee and security commitments. but at the same time, the reasonableness of power is changing. so the, at least in relative terms, the pol to us is declining in the region, particularly because of the china. so that is why do you need to do more? and also at the 3rd time, the strengthening of the last we started states is a, is of the defined importance. but at the same time, the, we need to probably other layers for our security and defense as a. and that is a deep did very much about strengthening and expanding our strategic

partnerships. so that includes relationship frustrated. relations is indian relations nato, and you'd be a mattress. and speaking of those, a alliances that are alliances of japan has an exercise in the country like australia and india. how important are those demands for your nations to postpone different school operations? here's australia. i didn't do it or any other partners. i'm not supposed to retrace the and i switched united states because their last visit in either states remain essential for japan. security on the 1st, there's no doubt about that. but at the same time, the, what we need to do for me is to co operate small on to the different needs to be prepared more ways cooperative thing was on the side teacher, he was really a u. k and other countries. so that is too confident. what so once we hop is the united states, we leave it there with the timing,

but thank you so much for joining us today. professor meet you talk to rocha. thank . thank you much. both front. so this is no stranger to a sure he's visited south korea, japan, the philippines. i'm having a huge events for the faithful there. today he began to visit to mongolia a country with one of the newest and smallest catholic congregations in the world. the pope was by come to the men golden capital, were not the tar over the next 4 days to be meeting and handing prayers for the around $1500.00, practicing catholics in the country. it also talks with mom, go to lead is the center piece of the folks visit? would it be a mass on sunday at frontier says don't bid for visiting places where catholics, auto minority. it's part of his policy to draw attention to people and problems on what he calls the paraphrase of society and the world. and mongolia as catholic

faithful certainly fits that description. mongolia, a country, no one for the boss, bips, no magic people. and as the birthplace of guy, he's gone. awesome. i'm going to have 2300000 people most practiced to put this on . but there's also a tiny got kind of community with less than 2000 fund of us. know this might not or d as in the spotlight with the visit of the church, but it's really to book francis or it's the 1st time upon defence ever job the goal . yeah. one of the words newest congregations the populated. wonderful. the poor front says visiting a country not known to the world, but it's got to look for them when he visits us of those when alone. but it's been 30 years since the religion came to mongolia and it says passed. the catholic

church was officially sanctioned in 1992 optimum goal. yeah. and it's so rich and i mean it's the government and they're not freedom of religion and its constitution. the country now has 6 churches and a bishop in the system. the catholics is such a joyous, unhappy occasion by a quote that however, the catholic religion is not well understood here and even christianity. because as many denominations can be misinterpreted, i'm just now it's my cell phone book from since the visit is also being seen as strategic. good. and can for the see him spend a day, me think politically, this conversations that good for data, right? the guns interest with men goes yes to china, near bus, russia and china. and like many other countries, we have only 2 neighbors that must, they are the superpowers. and we have also friend their relations with other countries. call we call them the 3rd neighbors. ok that virtually 3rd their risk

and it's important that these head of state, so far 3rd neighbors are coming to mongolia, including the one and including this one. and that's why i think it will be another, a serious step forward for the world to understand mongolia i'm, i'm going foreign policy is seeking a dialogue between the west inertia to find a way out of war and you clean and in china to back to can is trying to improve the situation of skeptics and can involve visit, may also signal on but doors pretensions rise as an intermediary between china and russia. but do your politics are far from the minds of mongolia has got to looks. we're getting a once in a lifetime johns to see the boat in the home country. and that

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