Japan Increases Spending on Missile Defense

Let North Korea fire a couple of missiles over your territory and it sets off some ill will in people who may not have thought about missiles hitting their homeland.  Japan has increased its defense spending  by 2% to cover additions to missile defense. So, whatever the North Koreans thought they were doing by flying over Japan, they probably didn't get the reaction they thought they were going to get.  Instead of getting more negotiations with Japan, they got the butt end of a missile system that can shoot down their missiles.  The Chinese went ballistic when THAAD went into South Korea, so I hope they keep thinking good thoughts about Japan doing the same thing.  The Japanese have a long history with China and they are not likely to budge much.  They are not afraid of China or the North.