{"id":49882,"date":"2024-03-26T17:17:04","date_gmt":"2024-03-26T07:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abnews.com.au\/?p=49882"},"modified":"2024-03-26T17:17:04","modified_gmt":"2024-03-26T07:17:04","slug":"japans-cabinet-approves-fighter-jet-exports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/?p=49882","title":{"rendered":"Japan&#8217;s cabinet approves fighter jet exports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Japan&#8217;s cabinet on Tuesday eased strict transfer rules for military equipment to allow the export of next-generation fighter jets being developed with Britain and Italy.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The three countries are pooling their know-how in cutting-edge air combat technology to develop the jet, which they hope will be ready by 2035.<\/p>\n<p>Government spokesman Yoshimasa Hayashi said the cabinet had approved the change to Japan&#8217;s arms export rules, following agreement by the ruling coalition earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>Previously the export of military equipment to a third country was forbidden, although there have been some exceptions in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The plan to make fighter jets with capabilities essential for the security of our nation must be realised, to ensure that our nation&#8217;s defences won&#8217;t be compromised,&#8221; Hayashi told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We need to have a system in place that would allow us to transfer defence equipment to countries other than our partners, and to make contributions on par with the UK and Italy.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan&#8217;s cabinet on Tuesday eased strict transfer rules for military equipment to allow the export of next-generation fighter jets being developed with Britain and Italy. The three countries are pooling their know-how in cutting-edge air combat technology to develop the jet, which they hope will be ready by 2035. Government spokesman Yoshimasa Hayashi said the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49883,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[918],"class_list":["post-49882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","tag-japans-cabinet-approves-fighter-jet-exports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}