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Japan moves to strengthen ISR capabilities

7th August 2014 - 10:50 GMT | by Andrew White in London

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Japan’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) has announced a raft of C4ISR initiatives as part of its latest defence white paper in response to the ‘increasingly severe’ security environment in South-East Asia.

According to the paper, the MoD faces a series of ‘various challenges and destabilising factors, which are becoming more tangible and acute’, including territorial and reunification disputes and increases in ‘grey-zone’ situations with neighbours China and Russia.

‘Above all, as conflicts between countries remain, major changes in the security environment in the vicinity of Japan have yet to emerge even after the end of the Cold War, unlike in

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