DEFENCES OF JAPAN
REARMING “WHEN WE CAN AFFORD IT”
10 p.m.) TOKYO, June 23. pie Prime Minister of Japan (Mr Shigeru Yoshida) told the Diet Budget committee today that it was undesirable for Japan to be in a position where she could not defend herself.
He said that the country should •tart a rearmament programme as •oon as she could afford it. The Director-General of Japan’s National Safety Board (Mr Tokutaro Kimura) said it would cost Japan ■bout £2,000,000,000.
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Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27074, 24 June 1953, Page 9
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