{"id":81610,"date":"2026-08-28T02:57:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T02:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/81610\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T02:57:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T02:57:13","slug":"japan-to-double-security-aid-to-12-indo-pacific-nations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/81610\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan to double security aid to 12 Indo-Pacific nations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/japan?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Japan<\/a> plans to provide defence equipment and other supplies to the armed forces of at least 12 like-minded countries under its Official Security Assistance programme this financial year, up from eight countries the previous year, people familiar with the matter said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The military of Kenya, which sits on the western Indian Ocean, is expected to be a first-time recipient under the programme, with the Japanese government seeking to strengthen maritime security cooperation, particularly in surveillance and monitoring, amid China\u2019s growing assertiveness in the Indo-Pacific region.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Japan selects recipient countries each financial year. The government has allocated about 18.1 billion yen (US$114 million) for the security assistance programme in the year ending March 2027, more than double the roughly 8 billion yen set aside for the last financial year.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Japanese Ambassador to Cambodia Atsushi Ueno (centre left) and Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Tea Seiha (centre right) attend a signing ceremony in Phnom Penh in July. Photo: Kyodo\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/da48d94e-5652-44fc-b427-647f8c2c528b_90ab99f0.jpg\" title=\"Japanese Ambassador to Cambodia Atsushi Ueno (centre left) and Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Tea Seiha (centre right) attend a signing ceremony in Phnom Penh in July. Photo: Kyodo\"\/>Japanese Ambassador to Cambodia Atsushi Ueno (centre left) and Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Tea Seiha (centre right) attend a signing ceremony in Phnom Penh in July. Photo: Kyodo<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Other countries being considered for help include the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and Sri Lanka, as well as Vietnam, East Timor and Palau.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Japan is considering supplying completed defence equipment, excluding items defined under Japan\u2019s Self-Defence Forces Law as weapons intended to kill or destroy.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">To date, Japan has mainly provided dual-use equipment and supplies to foreign militaries, including patrol boats and coastal surveillance radar systems.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The government also hopes that greater use of Japanese-made equipment will help expand the country\u2019s defence industry overseas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Japan plans to provide defence equipment and other supplies to the armed forces of at least 12 like-minded&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81611,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[923,15990,12,40179,34158,1180,22,8,6160,6663,33,26212,23,3430,4639,924],"class_list":["post-81610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-japan","tag-australia","tag-cambodia","tag-china","tag-east-timor","tag-fiji","tag-indo-pacific","tag-indonesia","tag-japan","tag-kenya","tag-malaysia","tag-nihon","tag-palau","tag-philippines","tag-sri-lanka","tag-thailand","tag-vietnam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}