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一 |     According to the Japanese daily Nikkei, the government of Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will scrap its usual ceiling on defense-related spending requests for the coming fiscal year, paving the way for a dramatic increase in military spending. Kishida is set to approve the policy before the end of the month.,Jeff Kingston, director of Asian Studies at the Tokyo campus of Temple University, told the South China Morning Post that the assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe earlier this month had allowed his Liberal Democratic Party to pursue its longstanding goal of amending Article 9, the so-called pacifism clause, of Japan’s constitution.,“It is clear that Kishida was already planning to boost defense spending, but the assassination of Abe has served to put wind in his sails and even the normally extremely cautious Ministry of Finance is not now raising any objections,” Kingston told the Hong Kong paper.,Abe’s killing, just days before parliamentary elections, catapulted the Liberal Democrats, a right-wing party, to a resounding victory and an even greater majority in the House of Councillors, the upper house of the Japanese Diet.,He said that between recent missile tests by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), increased tensions with China over Taiwan, and Russia’s special operation in Ukraine, Kishida’s government was “almost spoiled for choice” when it came to justifications for hiking the defense budget.,Japan, US Hold Joint Air Drills Involving 52 Aircraft: Military14 July, 07:48 GMT,“[W]hat is interesting is that if Abe had put forward these plans when he was prime minister, there would have been a quick and harsh pushback,” Kingston told the SCMP. During his nine years in power, Abe pushed to remove or amend the pacifism clause of the Japanese constitution that was put in place after World War II as a guard against renewed Japanese militarism.,“Everything that has happened in Ukraine has really put the liberal left on the back foot and altered that commitment to peace that has long been a part of the national psyche,” he added. “I had expected a more vigorous response, but it has been relatively muted.”,According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), Japan had the world’s ninth-largest military budget last year, spending $54.1 billion, or 1.1% of its GDP, despite its pacifist constitution. That was a 7.3% increase over its budget the previous year, the largest increase of any of the top 15 military spenders except for Iran.,Nonetheless, Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi said in April that Kishida’s government has plans to double that to 2% of GDP within five years. At a projected $108 billion per year, that would make Japan's military budget the world’s third-largest, after the United States and China. Kishi said Japan was particularly interested in “counterstrike capabilities” that could hit the bases of countries that attack the island nation.,However, the move isn’t particularly popular with the Japanese public. A June poll by Japan’s Kyodo News Agency found that while 37.2% of Japanese citizens surveyed supported the proposed increase, almost as many, 31.5%, opposed it.。

二 |     A case has been filed at the San Francisco County Superior Court, revealing that Uber is being sued by 550 women who were allegedly assaulted by drivers working for the platform.,The complaint was made on Wednesday by attorneys at Slater Slater Schulman LLP, a prominent full-service law firm, alleging that passengers "were kidnapped, sexually assaulted, sexually battered, raped, falsely imprisoned, stalked, harassed or otherwise attacked by Uber drivers".,Uber has been aware since 2014 that its drivers "sexually assaulted and raped female passengers". But the company reportedly prioritized "growth over customer safety".,The lawsuit further accuses Uber of "actively giving sexual predators a platform to find and assault women, without conducting proper background checks on the drivers or providing adequate safety measures for riders.",In addition, the complaint accuses Uber of benefiting monetarily from rides where women were sexually assaulted.,At least 150 other cases are being actively investigated.,The recent revelation by a media consortium, dubbed the 'Uber Files', said that when a driver raped a passenger in the cab during an Uber ride, the company shifted the blame on the "flawed" background checks of drivers in the country that led to the incident.,Internal emails and excerpts from around 124,000 pages of documents published in British daily newspaper The Guardian -- which is part of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists -- reveal how the company's staff in its San Francisco headquarters panicked after a sexual assault was performed by an Uber driver inside his cab in Delhi on 5 December.,Indian media reports in 2017 alleged that Uber was secretly collecting the private medical information of the victim.,In December 2017, the woman filed a new defamation suit in the US after Uber claimed it had investigated the complaint and concluded that she might have been making up the incident to defame the company.,At that time, Uber's Asia business head shared the victim's record with chief executive Travis Kalanick, who claimed that the incident could have been a "sabotage attempt" by Uber's competitor in India -- Ola.。

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