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JAPAN

PM vows to buy 400 Tomahawk missiles

Japan will buy 400 Tomahawk missiles from the United States, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said on Monday. Earlier this month, a senior official said Japan has set aside $1.5 billion to buy the missiles in the coming fiscal year, rather than dividing the procurement over several years. Japan has a pacifist postwar Constitution, which limits its military capacity to ostensibly defensive measures. But last year it updated key security and defense policies, setting a goal of doubling defense spending to the NATO standard of two percent of GDP by 2027.