Japan agreed on Monday to give the Philippine military a coastal radar system and surveillance drones to help it track ships, in a grant worth 4.3 billion Japanese yen (€24 million). Philippine Foreign Secretary Maria Theresa Lazaro and Japan’s ambassador Katsuro Kitagawa signed the agreement in Manila. The radar will go to the Philippine Navy and the drones to the Air Force. Japan’s foreign ministry said the equipment would also help protect shipping routes important to Japan, including those through the South China Sea and the Luzon Strait, between the Philippines and Taiwan. Japan handed over five coastal radar systems to the Philippines in February under a 2023 grant.
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