Japan unlikely to take up nuclear arms, expert says

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Japan is unlikely to develop nuclear weapons to counter the threat posed by North Korea’s nuclear weapons capability, a Japanese security specialist said last week in Taipei.

Yuki Tatsumi, director of the Japan Program at the Stimson Center, a Washington think tank, said Japan will not go down that road for two main reasons.

The Japan Times published an interview with Yuki Tatsumi on August 22, 2017. Read the full article here.

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