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