Shinjiro Koizumi: “Securing personnel is a major challenge amid Japan’s declining birth rate and aging population.”

The Japanese military needs to be boosted with a 'sense of urgency and crisis'

We will transform the organization so that we can respond to the most severe and complex security environment of the postwar period,

This deal will enable the ministry to move forward concretely with initiatives such as attracting private-sector companies.

The bear mission aims to help secure people’s daily lives, but that service members’ primary mission is national defense.