Kurumi Mori
speaker
282 appearances
12 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 4d ago
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So Japan will have to keep paying more and more for many of the things that it buys from overseas.
So it really impacts things that we import from abroad, like fuel and food, and that will affect prices for everyday things that we buy overseas.
they can remain high.
And so that really pinches consumers, the everyday people, household spending.
And if people are spending more on essentials, then they have less money to spend on other things like investments.
And that can slow down the economy.
So they might not be splurging on big ticket items, right?
Because now they feel like they need to save because they're spending more at the grocery store.
And so that doesn't help the economy grow.
That will hurt the Japanese GDP.
I sat down with Defense Minister Koizumi at his office hours ago in Tokyo, and he stressed to me several times over the interview just how critical, how important it is for Japan to ramp up its defense capabilities today.
to prevent conflict and not provoke it.
So this is not Japan trying to enter anything.
It is, he says, to defend itself.
especially given the security environment that has changed dramatically in the past 80 years since the end of the Second World War.
The ministry issues an annual white paper, and it still calls China its greatest strategic challenge.
I just want to point out that up until a few years ago, it was North Korea.
So I asked him whether he was concerned about a possible military conflict with China.
Absolutely, yeah.
Japan has a goal of upping their defense spending to now 2% of its GDP.
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