People check out rubber machine guns made for training purposes at the Japan pavilion of the Eurosatory defense fair on Monday in Paris. (Photo: Kyodo)

(VOVworld) – Thirteen Japanese enterprises on Monday attended for the first time in the Eurosatory defense and security exhibition in Paris, to promote Japanese military equipment after Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s loosened regulations restricting weapons exports. Japan’s exhibited products include a pontoon vehicle, a weather observation radar system, a night-vision lens, life-saving equipment, and a portable mine detector. Sponsors of Eurosatory invited the Japanese companies to participate in light of a growing interest in rescue and reconstruction technologies after an earthquake and tsunami devastated north-eastern Japan in March, 2011.