TOKYO: The Cabinet on Tuesday approved new guidelines for foreign aid, stipulating for the first time that Japan can fund foreign military forces, although the assistance must be for “nonmilitary purposes.”

Some analysts call that a contradiction, saying Japan won’t be able to ensure that its overseas development assistance remains exclusively nonmilitary.

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