A Japanese group representing survivors of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki has surveyed Japanese Diet members ...

Tensions are growing in east Asia. The threat of a Chinese attack on Taiwan persists and, in recent weeks, North Korea has been testing its long-range missile capabilities. Russia’s reorientation of ...

The Mainichi Shimbun recently conducted a survey of all 1,285 candidates in the Feb. 8 House of Representatives election, ...

A recent remark by a senior government adviser has reopened one of Japan’s most sensitive postwar debates: whether the ...

A senior Japanese official’s suggestion that Japan should possess nuclear weapons has reignited debate over whether the country could—or would—break with a decades-old taboo in response to an ...

"The Japanese government's position remains unchanged that the possession of nuclear (weapons) by North Korea is absolutely ...

A Japanese civic group advocating for nuclear abolition has held an event in Tokyo to mark five years to the day since the ...

NAGASAKI -- Twenty-two groups in Nagasaki, including A-bomb survivor groups, have protested against comments about changing ...

TOKYO, Dec 19 (Reuters) - Japan reaffirmed its decades-old pledge never to possess nuclear weapons on Friday after local media reported that a senior security official suggested the country should ...

North Korea said Japan’s ambition to possess nuclear weapons should be “prevented at any cost”, Pyongyang state media KCNA said on Sunday, citing the country’s foreign ministry. “Japan’s attempt to go ...

GT: The debate over Japan's possession of nuclear weapons is increasingly growing louder. What are the political forces ...

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