Japan opens door to global arms market with biggest export rule change in decades
TOKYO, April 21 - Japan on Tuesday unveiled its biggest overhaul of defence export rules in decades, scrapping restrictions on overseas arms sales and opening the way for exports of warships, missiles and other weapons.
Japan scraps lethal weapons export ban
- Japan has approved scrapping a ban on lethal weapons exports in a big change of its postwar pacifist policy ABC News —
- Japan Lifts Ban on Arms Exports Wall Street Journal —
- Japan lifts post-World War II ban on lethal weapons exports Washington Post —
- Japan scraps a ban on lethal weapons exports in a change of its postwar pacifist policy CTV News —
- Japan approves removing ban on lethal weapons exports NPR —