Japan Bulks Up Missile Defense Budget

Japan’s 2009 defense budget has been drafted with one particular threat in mind—North Korea. Recent missile tests by the secretive communist government there have raised enough alarm among Japanese defense planners that they are mandating funds for a number of measures, from sea-based ballistic...

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