Successive Japanese governments have had no choice but to uphold the three non-nuclear principles of not possessing, making or letting in nuclear weaponry.
In comments that stunned many here, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's top aide told reporters last week that what Japan calls its three non-nuclear principles could soon come under review.
"I only said there is a chance the government could take another look at the three non-nuclear principles in the future," said Mr. Fukuda, known as Mr. Koizumi's right-hand man.
The three non-nuclear principles -- never to own, produce or allow nuclear weapons on Japanese territory -- were overwhelmingly ratified in a parliamentary vote in 1971, reflecting the strong national consensus on the issue.
Tony Benn was a towering figure in British politics and a stalwart of the peace and anti-nuclear movement... His anti-nuclear principles underpinned so much of his political work.
New commitments to action now make it imperative that Japan confront its postwar ambivalence over its security choices while making clear that it will translate its anti-nuclear principles into policy practice.
The official, Cabinet Secretary Yasuo Fukuda, the most senior aide to Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, told reporters on Friday that Japan might one day break with its so-called three non-nuclear principles, a decades-old policy officially forswearing weapons of mass destruction.
For years afterward, I kept asking myself whether the pacifism written into our Constitution, which included the renunciation of the use of force, and, later, the Three Non-Nuclear Principles (don't possess, manufacture, or introduce into Japanese territory nuclear weapons) were an accurate representation of the fundamental ideals of postwar Japan.
The above evidences show that several nuclear safety principles were not followed.
A sophisticated view of glycoside hydrolase catalysis is now evident in which conformational changes occur that predispose substrates to react through oxocarbenium ion like transition states that are in accord with stereoelectronic and least nuclear motion principles.
He is refused permission to leave the country not for security reasons but as a further penalty, a punishment for coming out of prison as committed to his non-violent, anti-nuclear-weaponry principles as when he went in.
