In what a Defense Agency spokesman called the first budget reduction in memory, five-year spending is to drop to $233 billion, 3.7 percent below the average of the last five years.

• 在记忆中，日本第一个国防机构发言人宣布第一次削减预算中，其五年计划中削减了2330亿美金，在最近的五年中，平均减少了3.；7%25。