Japan’s Self-Defense Officers’ salaries have been fully increased. Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi: It has reached the highest level in history.

The Japanese government's "Amendment to Laws Related to Ministry of Defense Staff Salaries and Other Related Laws" to comprehensively increase the basic salary of Self-Defense Officers was voted at the Senate plenary meeting on the 13th and was officially established.

Japan's Fuji News Network (FNN) reported that this amendment will increase the basic salary of self-defense officers of all ages. Among them, the basic monthly salary for privates who enlist in the army after graduating from high school will be increased by 10,800 yen (approximately NT$2,224) to 250,300 yen (approximately NT$51,543); for general cadre candidates, their basic monthly salary will be increased by 11,300 yen (approximately NT$2,327) to 299,600 yen (approximately NT$61,696).

In addition, in order to reduce the financial burden caused by the redeployment of self-defense officers, the revised law also introduced new measures such as subsidies.

Japanese Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi said at the press conference after the cabinet meeting before the vote on the bill that the annual income of team members in their 30s and 40s who serve as the backbone of the army will also increase by about 200,000 yen (approximately NT$41,185), and the salaries of all self-defense officers will reach the highest level in history.

Koizumi further emphasized that using a standard case calculation of a private who enlisted in the army after graduating from high school, the total lifetime income will exceed 300 million yen (approximately NT$61.78 million) for the first time.

As for the review of the independent salary system for Self-Defense Officers, which is the first since the establishment of the Self-Defense Forces, Koizumi said that the government will speed up the work and strive to compile a plan before the end of the year.