岸田首相「厳しい安保環境に対峙」　防衛財源法案が参院審議入り

　防衛費増額に向けた財源確保法案は２４日の参院本会議で趣旨説明と質疑が行われ、審議入りした。岸田文雄首相は覇権主義的動きを強める中国や核・ミサイル開発を進める北朝鮮を挙げ、「戦後最も厳しく複雑な安全保障環境に対峙（たいじ）するため、防衛力の抜本的強化にしっかり取り組む」と述べ、防衛費増額の意義を強調した。
　自民党の北村経夫氏に対する答弁。２１日に閉幕した先進７カ国首脳会議（Ｇ７広島サミット）について、首相は「法の支配に基づく自由で開かれた国際秩序を守り抜く強い意志を示した」と述べた。（2023/05/24-11:56）

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida stressed the importance of increasing the country's defense spending in a parliamentary meeting Wednesday.
   "We'll make full efforts to drastically strengthen our defense capabilities in order to adapt to the toughest and most complicated security environment since the end of World War II," amid China's increasingly hegemonic moves and North Korea's nuclear and missile development, Kishida told the House of Councillors, the upper chamber of the Diet.
   At the day's plenary meeting, the Upper House began deliberations on a bill for securing financial resources for the planned defense spending increase.
   On the Group of Seven summit in the western city of Hiroshima that ended on Sunday, Kishida said, "We demonstrated our strong determination to fully defend a free and open international order based on the rule of law."
   The government plans to secure 43 trillion yen in defense spending over the five years from fiscal 2023, which started in April.