How Many Fighter Jets Does Japan Produce Annually?

While Japan seems only to be actively producing limited quantities of F-35As, it boasts a developed military aviation sector. Japan’s defense sector has long only received a small percentage of GDP in funding, as it is the world’s third-largest economy that is changing (and is planning to double defense spending by 2027). The emergence of great power competition with China has seen Japan start to invest more in its military (while the US is deploying more advanced F-35As, F-35Cs, and F-15EXs to Japan).