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SYDNEY – <\/span>Australia and Japan signed contracts on Saturday (April 18) launching their landmark A$10 billion (S$9 billion) deal to supply Australia with warships, Tokyo’s most consequential military sale since ending a military export ban in 2014.<\/p>\n

Defence Ministers Richard Marles and Shinjiro Koizumi signed a memorandum “reaffirming the Australian and Japanese governments’ shared commitment to the successful delivery” of the warships, Marles said in a statement.<\/p>\n

The deal struck in August anchors Japan’s push away from its postwar pacifism to forge security ties beyond its alliance with the US to counter China.<\/p>\n

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries is to supply the Royal Australian Navy with three upgraded Mogami-class multi-role frigates built in Japan from 2029. Eight more frigates will be built in Australia.<\/p>\n

Japan’s Defence Ministry posted on X that Koizumi and Marles welcomed the “conclusion of contracts for General Purpose Frigates, and confirmed to further strengthen bilateral defence ties” in the signing in Melbourne.<\/p>\n

Contracts were signed for the first three frigates, to be built in Japan, before there is a “transition to an onshore build” at the Henderson shipyard near Perth in Western Australia, Marles said.<\/p>\n

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Australia plans to deploy the ships –<\/span> designed to hunt submarines, strike surface ships and provide air defence –<\/span> to defend critical maritime trade routes and its northern approaches in the Indian and Pacific Oceans, where China’s military footprint is expanding.<\/p>\n

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SYDNEY – Australia and Japan signed contracts on Saturday (April 18) launching their landmark A$10 billion (S$9 billion) deal to supply Australia with warships, Tokyo’s most consequential military sale since ending a military export ban in 2014. Defence Ministers Richard Marles and Shinjiro Koizumi signed a memorandum “reaffirming the Australian and Japanese governments’ shared commitment…<\/p>\n

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