{"id":11713,"date":"2025-12-19T07:43:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T08:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.globaltalenthq.com\/?p=11713"},"modified":"2025-12-22T19:34:30","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T19:34:30","slug":"japan-needs-nukes-senior-pm-aide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.globaltalenthq.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/19\/japan-needs-nukes-senior-pm-aide\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan needs nukes \u2013 senior PM aide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The US umbrella may no longer be a dependable pillar of national security, the official has reportedly told the media<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Japan needs to consider developing its own nuclear weapons, a senior adviser to Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has reportedly told journalists.<\/p>\n<p>The unnamed official, who advises the prime minister on national security, argued that Japan&rsquo;s long-standing reliance on the US nuclear deterrent may no longer be fully reliable, according to media reports. Under these conditions, a departure from the country&rsquo;s postwar non-nuclear policy could become necessary, the adviser said, as cited by NHK.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking with reporters on Thursday, the official acknowledged that the move would come at a high political cost domestically, adding that there is no indication that Takaichi is currently contemplating a policy shift.<\/p>\n<p>Japan remains the only country to have suffered a nuclear attack. The US dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the final months of World War II, as the Soviet Union entered the war against Imperial Japan.<\/p>\n<p>\n        <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/russia\/627528-peskov-russia-nuclear-test-us\/\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n            <span>READ MORE: <\/span>Russia won\u2019t break nuclear test ban unless US does \u2013 Kremlin<br \/>\n        <\/a>\n    <\/p>\n<p>After the war, Japan joined the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, which recognizes only five nuclear-armed states &ndash; China, France, Russia, the US, and UK. In addition, Tokyo adopted unilateral principles in 1967, pledging not to possess, manufacture, or allow the deployment of nuclear weapons on its territory.<\/p>\n<p>The adviser reportedly suggested that Japan might have to reconsider its commitments in order to establish an independent deterrent in response to perceived threats from China, Russia, and North Korea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US umbrella may no longer be a dependable pillar of national security, the official has reportedly told the media Japan needs to consider developing its own nuclear weapons, a senior adviser to Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has reportedly told journalists. The unnamed official, who advises the prime minister on&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.globaltalenthq.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/19\/japan-needs-nukes-senior-pm-aide\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11715,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.globaltalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11713"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.globaltalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.globaltalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.globaltalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.globaltalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11713"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.globaltalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11714,"href":"http:\/\/www.globaltalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11713\/revisions\/11714"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.globaltalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.globaltalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.globaltalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.globaltalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}