North Korea’s Kim slams U.S.-South Korea-Japan partnership and vows to boost his nuclear program

SEOUL--North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said an elevated U.S. security partnership with South Korea and Japan poses a grave ...
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Japan approves removing ban on lethal weapons exports

Japan is removing restrictions on exporting lethal weapons for the first time in 50 years. Japan is feeling more threatened by its neighbors than it has in decades, and that has led to gradual shifts ...
National Catholic Reporter

US, Japanese bishops warn 9 nuclear powers are killing non-proliferation treaty

Several U.S. and Japanese Catholic bishops seeking nuclear disarmament are expressing both urgency and wariness, as the United Nations hosts a conference on a non-proliferation treaty at a time when ...
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Japan has enough plutonium to make 5,500 nuclear warheads, PLA Daily says

China's military mouthpiece claims Tokyo has 'astonishing' stockpile of nuclear materials and the tech to produce weapons China's military mouthpiece accused Japan of "dangerously expanding" its ...
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Will South Korea or Japan develop a nuclear deterrent of their own?

Seven in 10 South Koreans tell pollsters they want the bomb. Japan's PM refuses to rule it out. Is 'friendly proliferation' next? War on Iran has changed many things, not least of which is the tenor ...
East Asia Forum

Japan’s non-nuclear norm under pressure

Japan’s non-nuclear stance remains resilient due to entrenched institutional, legal and normative constraints, even as debates over extended deterrence and nuclear sharing intensify amid a ...