Analysis: Japan’s Kishida walks tightrope to redemption with planned defence splurge


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TOKYO, Dec 13 (Reuters) - Boosting military spending may be Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's best hope of reviving his sinking popularity, but there is a catch, analysts say: paying for it with unpopular new taxes could undermine an already wobbly premiership. About two-thirds of Japanese voters back a government plan for the country's biggest military build-up since World War Two, arming it with missiles that can strike targets in neighbouring China or North Korea. That is more than double Kishida's approval rating, which has plummeted amid revelations about his ruling Liberal Democratic Party's (LDP) ties to the controversial Unification...