Tokyo will build two 96-metre Kunigami-class (or Kunisaki- class) patrol ships for the PCG by 2022.19 In 2013, Japan agreed to lease two retired TC-90 surveillance aircraft to The Philippines, and as part of the leasing deal, hosted a training programme at the Tokushima air base to train the Philippine crew to operate the aircraft. [...] The terms of the deal changed over the course of 2017- 2018, when Japan donated five TC-90 Beecher Turbo-prob aircraft as part of its ODA to help Manila build its surveillance capacity.20 Japan has used these aircraft since the early 1970s, and only managed to transfer them officially after the amendment of the export law. [...] the leasing of TC90 planes to the Philippines) but had to institute the 2014 Export Weapons Ban lift to legitimise the transfer after the fact. [...] 70 ISSN 2335-6677 1 The most famous of these Japanese missions abroad is the Iwakura Mission, where Japan sent delegations to both the US and the Great Britain to learn from the West. [...] The period leading up to the First World War provided the most lucrative opportunity for Japan, with the emergence of the first Zaibatsus that helped Japan build up the industrial capacity to manufacture weapons.
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