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European defense agencies say that since the election of US President Donald Trump, Japan has accelerated the opening of non-American suppliers of military equipment.
Tokyo’s purchase of his Traditional Defense Partner for the purchase of Tokyo was the growing wish of the main focus of attention JapanThis month is the largest defense sector trade show in Makuhari near Tokyo.
It comes after Trump throws allies around the world by questioning the promise of joint defense of Washington.
Representatives of the three -day defense and protection equipment international events say Japanese politicians and officials have made it clear that they are now more open to the United States for non -contractors supported by plans to increase national defense expenses.
“It was dominated in the United States in the past,” said Lars Ericsson, Saber Country Manager of Japan, Japan.
“There is a change in Japan,” said Paul McGregor, managing director of the British sensor and information group Rock Rock. He said that the feeling among Japanese officers is increasingly “we don’t like something as long as we do”.
Roke, owned by the UK listed in the UK, provided the Japan’s self-defense forces for the first time last year, and is expected to earn £ 100MN in Japan market in the next five years through a expanded relationship with the local trading house Kaigai.
UK, Italian, Scandinavian, Israeli and German Defense The makers echoed McGregor’s apathy and said that the domestic weapons market changed completely in the wake of Russia’s full-scale aggression in 2022.
The attack raised Tokyo’s awareness of geopolitical uncertainty, and the growing powerful and viewed Ser -Ser -Ser Ser helped to do more to deal with what they were watching as a strategic challenge.
Japan announced the plan in 2023 Increase the cost of defense By 2227, 2 percent of GDP, about 5 percent of GDP was maintained from self-pressed caps for the decade of 600.
On a sign of transferred commercial landscapes, 5 companies from 4 countries participated in the DSEI trade show, greater than 60 percent in the previous event in 2021. Of these, 120 came from Europe, it is the largest party so far.
James de St. Price, a business director of NMS UK manufacturer NMS UK, says “Japan feels much more acceptable to the UK, European and larger international allies.”
“Mutual cooperation between the United Kingdom and Japan has become much more relevant between mixed messages in the United States,” he said.
Robert Den, chief executive of the Australian marine drone supplier, says his company’s “thunderstorm speed” over Japan’s naval supply has confused expectations since last October. “I was told that it would take time to drink six years,” he said.
In a speech at the trade show on Thursday, Prime Minister Shigeru Isiba focused on the growing openness of deep partnerships with Japan’s international missiles, drones and fighter jets.
“In addition to transfer to ensure peace and stability in Japan and the greater region, it is critically important to promote joint development and production of joint development and defense equipment.”
The flag of Japan’s joint development is the flag Global Combat Air ProgramA million billion dollar fighter jet projects with the United Kingdom and Italy are also a clear goal of the cutting edge options to close US military technology closely.
“The essence of the GCAP program was the freedom of action for each nation and the freedom of change,” Leonardo UK’s Future Combat Air Director Andrew Howard said one of the four companies that would provide Fighter Jet Avyics to Avyics.
He added, “The desire to maintain significant sovereign power in each of the three nations is further strengthened by the anxiety around US behavior,” he added.
The Trump administration has tried to simplify anxiety among Asia allies about his promise to them. Visit to Japan in late March, US Secretary of State Pete Hegsth Japan As a “Model Mitra” and said that Washington and Tokyo began setting up a “war war” headquarters.
“America is not alone in America at first,” said Hegastoth.
Participants at the Defense Trade Show have agreed that Japan’s primary defense partners and suppliers will be in the United States, even though the collection and joint development with Europe have increased considerably.