Last July Japan Sought to Sell Sub-Hunting Jet to UK

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Tim Kelly and Nobuhiro Kubo, Exclusive: Japan Seeks to Sell Sub-Hunting Jet to UK as Abe Pushes Arms Exports. Reuters, Jan 7, 2014.
www.reuters.com/article/2015/01/ ... USKBN0KG0WG20150107

Note:
(a)
(i) The Japanese name of the Japanese reporter may be 久保 信宏.
(ii) "Japanese Defense Ministry's spokesman Hirofumi TAKEDA 武田 博文"
(iii) "Teppei KOBAYASHI 小林 徹平, a spokesman for Kawasaki Heavy" Industries 川崎重工業

(b) "Japanese officials [in July 2014, which is learned now] raised the issue of London buying the P-1 to replace the British-made Hawker Siddeley Nimrod, which was retired in 2011 * * * Jointly building a P-1 that taps into Britain's experience building the Nimrod would allow London to retain rights over radar and sensing technology it would lose by buying a U.S. aircraft regulated by the Pentagon, one source said."
(i) Wikipedia (English, Japanese) does not explain the P in P-1. Probably it is modeled after US. See list of United States naval aircraft
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_naval_aircraft
(section 1.7 P - Patrol)
(ii) Nimrod (disambiguation)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nimrod_(disambiguation)

is a figure in Old Testament, and may refer to "Hawker Siddeley Nimrod, a Royal Air Force maritime patrol aircraft now retired" Where the airplane maker Hawker Siddeley was the product of a merger of two firms founded by the respective eponyms.