Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kisida during the upcoming next week of the US President Joe Biden in Tokyo intends to announce the purpose of increasing defense costs, ASAHI reports with reference to government sources.
According to the channel, the level of 2% of GDP will be taken as a guideline – by analogy with NATO countries, which is almost 2 times more compared to the current level of Japan’s costs for these purposes.
In addition, the leaders of the two countries during negotiations will discuss the situation around Ukraine, China, DPRK and cooperation in the Indo-Pacific region.