Japan spends 1.8% of GDP on defense in 2025

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Tokyo, April 16 / WAM / Jin Nakatani, Japan’s Minister of Defense, announced that the total defensive spending and the costs associated with it for the fiscal year 2025 will reach 9.9 trillion yen ($ 70 billion), equivalent to 1.8 % of GDP three years ago, as the country seeks to achieve 2 % by the fiscal year 2027.

The Japanese minister said that the government will allocate about 8.5 trillion yen for its defensive budget, and about 1.5 trillion yen for relevant expenditures in its initial budget for the current fiscal year that started this month.

When updating the guidelines for the long -term national security strategy policy in late 2022, the government set a goal represented in raising the defense budget and tunnels associated with it to 2% of the gross domestic product of that fiscal year by the fiscal year 2027, and pledged to obtain “counter -offensive capabilities”.

Thanks to its constitution rejecting the war, Japan has long defined its defensive spending at about 1% of the gross domestic product, but decided to increase the percentage in response to the current security challenges.

Defense spending and the costs associated with it for the two -year two years reached 2023 and 2024, equivalent to 1.4% and 1.6% of GDP, respectively, according to the Japanese Ministry of Defense

Defense -related costs include spending on the Japanese Coast Guard, United Nations peacekeeping operations, development of cybersecurity, and others.