Japan: Takaichi's first economic blueprint — defence industry, drones, 17 strategic sectors

The LDP signed off PM Takaichi's first Basic Policies for Economic and Fiscal Management: rebuild Japan's defence industrial base, mass-produce drones, and "transform Japan's defence posture within five years" toward autonomous capability, alongside targeted investment across 17 strategic sectors including AI and semiconductors.

A conservative government treating defence industrial capacity as the organising principle of economic policy is exactly the debate around the UK's defence industrial strategy and drone-procurement lessons from Ukraine.