"In 2006, after North Korea’s first nuclear test, LDP’s Policy Research Council Chairman Shoichi Nakagawa proposed public discussion of nuclear weapons acquisition"
"In 2017, former defense minister Shigeru Ishiba proposed hosting US nuclear weapons [in #Japan]"
"[In 2022] former PM Shinzo Abe [urged] national discussion on #nuclear weapons-sharing arrangements with USA"
https://asiatimes.com/2023/06/japans-nuclear-weapon-dilemma-growing-more-acute/
🔸Now: "Ishiba mulls running in LDP leadership race" to become PM
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20240628/p2g/00m/0na/097000c
#deterrent