By YOSHITAKA ITO/ Staff Writer
November 14, 2020 at 17:15 JST
Defense Minister Taro Kono apologizes in June 2020 to Akita Governor Norihisa Satake after his decision to scrap the land-based Aegis Ashore system that had been planned to be deployed to a Ground Self-Defense Force training area in Akita Prefecture. (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
An internal Defense Ministry document on the cost-efficiency of the massively expensive land-based Aegis Ashore ballistic missile defense system that Japan had planned to deploy is now coming back to haunt the top echelon. [Read More]
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