Japan's Leader Marks Hiroshima Anniversary with Bold New Nuclear Policy Direction
11 Articles
11 Articles
Japan faces a dilemma between its pacifist tradition and the new security threats in Asia. While the country recalls the victims of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, members of the Government are proposing to open the debate on its nuclear policy.
This mantra was indisputable for decades in Japan. But just as the country commemorates the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, its leaders begin to break the taboo. The Japanese Constitution renounces having an offensive military force and successive governments since the end of the Second World War have respected this threefold commitment to nuclear weapons. But that position begins to be questioned in the face of the military p…
81 years ago, a single bomb turned Hiroshima into ruins in a matter of seconds, forever marking the history of humanity. Today, there are far fewer nuclear bombs in the world than during the Cold War, but they are much more powerful and precise. Are we safer 81 years later, or are we living in an era when nuclear weapons are once again at the center of world politics? Defense scholar Klemen Grošelj answered these questions in Pogled na svet.
The Asian country commemorated the 81st anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the midst of a debate on nuclear weapons
The Washington Post · Chie Tanaka Tokyo. The Japanese Prime Minister, on the 81st anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima, was limited to describing the current policy on nuclear weapons and did not define what the country could do. This alarmed the countries of the world. Japan, the only country that has been the victim of atomic bombardments in a war, has long maintained the fundamental policy of naming three non-nuclear principles: it does no…
At the time of the 81st anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japanese leaders openly question the ban on the possession of nuclear weapons. The subject is becoming less taboo today in the face of the rise of peril in the region.
Coverage Details
Bias Distribution
- 67% of the sources are Center
Factuality
To view factuality data please Upgrade to Premium
