NHK has learned that the United States has asked Japan to provide more than 3 trillion yen, or about 18.8 billion dollars, over five years to host US forces stationed in Japan. The requested amount is almost triple the current spending level.

Regarding the latest requests from the US side, the Japanese government has indicated that it is open to considering an additional contribution.But it says it cannot accept an excessive increase in its burden.

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The utter destruction of the carefully constructed illusions and facades surrounding decades of heavy-handed US foreign policy and the systematic dismantling of US imperialism and the resulting growing resistance to their international meddling and bullying are the only Trump policies I actually agree with him on. He doesn't really seem to understand he's doing it, and it's coming at a horrible, horrible cost to global security and safety that really is going to inevitably come back to haunt the whole world, but aside from that, it's much overdue and I love to see it. I wish it could've been done for sensible reasons in a methodical way instead of this chaotic and reactionary reckoning from the flailing of a madman, but alas, here we are. Pax Americana was mismanaged until it became a luxury too costly and painful for anyone to afford, least of all the US.

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