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Cabinet approves record 7.95 trillion yen or $55.9 billion defence budget for Fiscal Year 2024 .
Amount represents a 16.5 percent increase from FY2023 ’s budget of 6.8 trillion yen .
Cabinet also approved a loosening of export restrictions allowing Japan to supply complete lethal weapons and munitions to other countries under certain conditions.
Japan ’s regulations for defence exports forbid the exports of weapons to countries at war.
The U.K. is said to be interested in obtaining 155mm artillery rounds from Japan which are manufactured under licence from BAE .
The Patriots are to replenish U.S. stocks that have been transferred to the Ukraine .
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