TOKYO (Kyodo) — Shigeru Ishiba, former secretary general of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, said Sunday that Japan should possess the capability of building a nuclear weapon.
“Japan should have the technology to build a nuclear weapon if it wants to do so,” the former defense minister said in a speech in Tokyo.
“But I don’t take the position that Japan should have nuclear weapons,” Ishiba added.
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Ishiba said, “If we don’t have knowledge about nuclear weapons, we would not develop an awareness of how to defend ourselves against them.”
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