Will Ukraine invasion push Japan to go nuclear?
Ex-PM Shinzo Abe shocked Japan by saying it should think about nuclear weapons - but he's not alone.
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Ex-PM Shinzo Abe shocked Japan by saying it should think about nuclear weapons - but he's not alone.
Senior political figures including former prime minister Shinzo Abe are saying it is time for Japan to discuss having a nuclear deterrent
The spectre of nuclear weapons being deployed in Ukraine, combined with the leaps that both China and North Korea have made in recent years in atomic weaponry, has emboldened some on the right in Japan to call for the nation’s non-nuclear principles to be reconsidered. And while the possibility of a conventional conflict devolving into an exchange of nuclear warheads...
An astrophysicist who analyzes MLB game balls determined the league used two balls, one bouncier than the other, and the league confirmed it.
In the shadow of COVID-19, Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga and U.S. President Joe Biden released a joint statement titled “U.S.-Japan Global Partnership for a New Era” on April 16 in Washington. The Japanese government and media made it sound as though Tokyo had been struggling over whether to include Taiwan in the statement. Actually, the text was carefully planned. It was an intentional move on the Japanese government’s part to write Taiwan into a joint leaders’ statement with the U.S. for the first time since 1969. This is serious interference in China’s domestic affai...