A Japanese government official's remark to reporters that Japan should possess nuclear weapons has caused a major backlash.

A senior official from the Japanese Prime Minister’s Office (Prime Minister’s Official Residence) sparked controversy on the 18th by stating during a meeting with reporters, “We should possess nuclear ...

They were moved out of concern that Japan would discover they were being used for training. Read more at straitstimes.com.

“I do think that if Japan wants to show the world that it too should be reckoned with, then maybe it really should have nuclear weapons.” :: Tokyo, Japan Tatsuaki Takahashi grew up in Hiroshima. On ...

Eighty years after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, many of the remaining Japanese survivors are increasingly frustrated by growing nuclear threats and the acceptance of nuclear weapons ...

Troops carried out multiple mock hydrogen bomb drills in the early 1970s, potentially for use against the Soviet Union or ...