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> A senior official at Japan's Prime Minister's Office has expressed the view that the country "should possess nuclear weapons." But the official acknowledged that reviewing the nation's Three Non-Nuclear Principles involves a huge political cost.

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20251219_01/

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> In Japan, before that fateful moment on March 11, 2011, when the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant began melting down, the legal radiation exposure limit for the Japanese public was one millisievert a year. This is still too high. But after the disaster, when cleaning up the radioactive contamination proved an impossible task, the Japanese government raised the exposure limit, by 20 times.
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