An executive at one of the country's biggest defense companies has bemoaned government barriers to exporting military equipment, as changes to the law have failed to bring the bonus some expected for the domestic industry.
Speaking at Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd.'s booth at the MAST defense convention in Chiba Prefecture, the company's senior manager for its naval ship sales department said the government needed to rethink its required processes.
"Basically, it's impossible for us to just go out and sell things," Toshihide Takao said Monday. "It's a question of what the government wants to do. If the government doesn't make a move, we can't either."