TOKYO: Japan’s coastguard is to ask for a doubling of its budget to boost patrols around islands that are the focus of a dispute with China, officials said on Thursday.
The agency will submit a request to the government for 50.4 billion yen ($485 million) for the financial year starting in April 2015, they said.
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