Tokyo DispatchJapan, in EnglishThe government will commit to stockpiling ammunition and missiles in peacetime and securing a wartime production surge, with some in the ruling camp wary of language that assumes war.
The prime minister told LDP lawmaker Muneo Suzuki that Tokyo is pursuing the case through diplomatic channels, after a Hokkaido Shimbun journalist was detained by Russian authorities.
The Foreign Ministry summoned Russia's ambassador after Vladimir Putin signed an order putting the Russian business of a Japan Tobacco subsidiary under the control of a Russian company.
