PoliticsJapan’s pacifist course under strain as nuclear restraints challenged

At a Nagasaki memorial ceremony, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said Japan “is upholding” the Three Non-Nuclear Principles, using wording that stopped short of an explicit pledge made by previous premiers. The article portrays growing public demands to preserve the principles alongside political calls to review them as a challenge to Japan’s postwar pacifist identity, amid wider military expansion.

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