U.S. defense firm Anduril Industries is in talks to acquire Nissan Motor¡¯s Oppama assembly plant near Tokyo as the maker of autonomous weapons looks to build military drones in Japan, according to three sources familiar with the matter.
While they say no decision has been made, any deal could transform one of Japan¡¯s first large-scale postwar car factories, long a symbol of its industrial revival, into ?an arms-making hub.
The talks over Oppama, which are being?reported?for the first time, come as Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi¡¯s government seeks to expand defense manufacturing ?amid growing ?concern that a Taiwan Strait crisis could draw in Japan and run down weapons stocks.
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