Japan develop advanced fighter jet

Japan plans to develop a prototype of an advanced fighter jet in the hope it will spur the United States to review a ban on selling F-22 fighters, a news report said Tuesday.

But an official of the Defence Ministry said no decision had been reached.

Japan’s largest daily, The Yomiuri, said the Defence Ministry planned to request a budget for the next year to build the test model of a stealth fighter jet.

The project is expected to cost billions of yen (hundreds of millions of euros) over the next 10 years, the report said.