Japanese Ministry of Defense 09/10/12 requested for army needs in the budget for the next fiscal year 4.57 trillion. yen (58 billion dollars). army planned budget was reduced by 1.7%, which is less than the current military spending. The last eleven years, Japan has been gradually reducing military spending, and the future reduction in the last 58 years will be a record.
Over the past twenty years, if approved, the military budget will be the lowest. However, the Japanese Defense Ministry ventured scale modernization and restructuring of defense capabilities to counter China. In particular, the Department of Defense intends to increase the efficiency of monitoring and control of the armed forces, intelligence, communications and missile defense, and computer security.
For the next fiscal year under budget Japanese Ministry of Defense has requested 72.3 billion yen for a new anti-destroyer displacement of 5000t, 19.2 billion yen - a new minesweeper, ¥ 10 billion to improve the 4 aircraft AWACS Boeing E-767 and 2.5 billion yen - 4 armored amphibious assault AAV-7. They will be used for protection of remote islands.
Another 3 billion yen will be spent on the early warning of a missile attack, which was placed on drones. Only 34.5 billion yen the Department of Defense has requested to strengthen cyber security of their own data centers