Shinjiro Koizumi: “The bear mission aims to help secure people’s daily lives, but that service members’ primary mission is national…”

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.

We are not considering recruiting foreign nationals into the Self-Defense Forces.

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