日本低调复兴国防

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Martin Fackler, 日本低调复兴国防. 纽约时报中文网, Nov 28, 2012.
http://cn.nytimes.com/article/world/2012/11/28/c28japan/

, which is translated from

Martin Fackler, In an Answer to China In the Pacific, Japan Flexes Military Muscle; Display of strength and in a first since World II, defense aid overseas.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/2 ... -military-role.html

Quote:

"Japan could soon reach another milestone: beginning sales in the region of military hardware like seaplanes, and perhaps eventually the stealthy diesel-powered submarines considered well suited to the shallow waters where China is making increasingly assertive territorial claims.

"Japan’s Ministry of Defense said it planned to double its military aid program next year to help Indonesia and Vietnam. Vietnam could also be among the countries that Japan would allow to buy its submarines, according to a former defense minister, Toshimi Kitazawa, who named Australia and Malaysia as other possible buyers.

My comment:
(a) It is obvious, from the titles (Chinese and English) alone, that the two versions emphasize different portions of the same report.
(b) Keiro KITAGAMI  北神 圭朗

* kei  圭
* seikei 尖形; 尖圭 【せんけい】 (adj): "pointed"
* tōkei 刀圭 【とうけい】 (n): "doctor"

(c) "Yoshihide SOEYA, director of the Institute of East Asian Studies at Keio University"

慶應義塾大学 (法学部政治学科 教授) 東アジア研究所所長  添谷 秀芳

* soeru 添える 【そえる】(v)

(d) "Rommel Banlaoi, a security expert at the Philippine Institute for Peace, Violence and Terrorism Research in Manila"

His first name came from
Erwin Rommel
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_Rommel
(1891-1944; German general)

(e) "Tetsuo KOTANI, a researcher at the Japan Institute of International Affairs in Tokyo"

日本国際問題研究所研究員 小谷 哲男

(f) Malaysia currently has two submarines.

Royal Malaysian Navy
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Malaysian_Navy
(section 3.1 Scorpène submarines)