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Defense Ministry eyes domestic fighter jet The Yomiuri Shimbun The Defense Ministry will include in its fiscal 2008 budgetary request funds to develop a manned prototype fifth-generation fighter jet equipped with stealth capabilities and other advanced technologies, sources said Monday. With the production of F-2 support fighters, jointly developed by Japan and the United States, scheduled to end in fiscal 2011, the ministry apparently plans to maintain the foundations for future technological development, the sources said. The sources also said the ministry, by showing interest in developing jet fighters domestically, hopes to gain an edge in negotiations with the United...