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An Air Self-Defense Force F-15 fighter jet takes off during a training exercise. (Asahi Shimbun file photo) Skyrocketing costs have forced the Defense Ministry to drastically revise its strategy to protect outlying islands against moves by China. Ministry officials had initially hoped to retrofit F-15 fighter jets so that they could fire long-range cruise missiles to defend the Nansei island chain that stretches southwest from Okinawa Prefecture. But expenses in the initial preparatory stage of design and constructing the facilities for the retrofitting have continued to climb, and ministry officials still have no idea what the ultimate total cost of the project might end up being.

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