The Japanese government will provide money in the FY2008 defense budget to develop a prototype stealth fighter, according to a report in the Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper. Development would take up to ten years and cost "tens of billions of yen" (10 billion yen = $84 million). The prototype would not have a radar or weapons, which could be demonstrated separately, and would be smaller than an operational fighter.
They go on to say that it might be a negotiating bluff wrt the US and the F-22. O:)
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