TOKYO -- Japan's ruling coalition will discuss a limited exception to the country's restrictions on defense equipment sales that would allow exports of a next-generation fighter jet currently in the works.
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Japan is developing the sixth-generation fighter jet in partnership with the U.K. and Italy. (U.K. Prime Minister's Office)
TOKYO -- Japan's ruling coalition will discuss a limited exception to the country's restrictions on defense equipment sales that would allow exports of a next-generation fighter jet currently in the works.