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Recruitment
met last month to discuss how to increase
numbers. In Japan, there is an ever-
number of young people to recruit from. The military has to compete with businesses who are trying to lure new
. Japan's Defence Minister said: "As our
faces a serious workforce
, we recognize competition with others, including the private
, to secure talent has been intensifying." He said the new haircut
would "change or eliminate
that lack rationality". Japan might also allow people with
to join the SDF.